Daily Archives: 14 Aug 2009

Use by-laws to handle condo issues: BCA

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I REFER to last Thursday’s letter by Mr Henry Ng, ‘Update law to deal with recalcitrant condo residents’.

We wish to highlight that the Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act provides a legal framework for the management and maintenance of strata properties such as condominiums. The Act, which spells out the duties and obligations of various stakeholders such as the subsidiary proprietor, management corporation, council members and managing agent, is aimed at facilitating self-regulation among these stakeholders who have interests in the well-being of the strata properties.

The Act prescribes a set of by-laws that every management corporation is required to adopt. To enable flexibility and autonomy in the running of strata properties, management corporations are also allowed to make additional by-laws to control and manage the use of common property and the strata lots in the development, and all subsidiary proprietors and occupiers are obliged to comply with these by-laws. Continue reading →

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Cheated of property and $1.2m

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CHEATED of their property when their lawyer forged their signatures to seize ownership, three brothers had to come up with another $700,000 to prevent the bank from selling off the building.

Yesterday, their five-year-long plight finally ended when the High Court ordered the rogue lawyer’s name to be removed from the property title deed and replaced by their names instead.

The brothers, Mr Sim Chiang Lee, Mr Sim Sien Tong and Mr Sim Ah Ban, now in their 50s and 60s, were partners and shareholders in a family business that included provisions, hardware and realty.

Their ordeal began in March 2004 when then lawyer Sivakolunthu Thirunavukarasu, now 51, forged their signatures and transferred ownership of a factory they had purchased to her name. Continue reading →

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