British Columbia Strata Property Practice Manual--ONLINE

What you need to know to practise strata property law with success

This publication is essential for: lawyers who need guidance on advising and acting for clients in the strata property context

Current to: January 1, 2025

BC continues to undergo a high level of new strata construction and conversions, with windups now growing in number. With challenging legislative amendments and an active litigation and administrative law environment, the British Columbia Strata Property Practice Manual is your must-have resource for doing legal work in the strata property context. Focused on the nuances of practice in light of changing authorities, this manual explains  requirements for creation, governance, operation, phasing, and winding up of a strata corporation, as well as financing, insurance, collections, rental, employment, human rights, and privacy issues. Relied on and cited by courts and tribunals, the manual offers help for legal professionals grappling with traditional and new venues for resolving strata disputes.

With an online subscription to British Columbia Strata Property Practice Manual, your firm will be able to:

• conveniently access detailed guidance at any time and from any location, search for relevant information, link directly to significant legislation, case law, and websites, and download precedents
• read a strata plan and understand required land title filings
  
• work with the distinctions between strata lots, CP, and LCP
  
• gain confidence in your grasp of how sections operate and the meaning of types
  
• work effectively with strata bylaws
  
• advise your strata corporation, strata council and executive, section executive, strata lot owner, tenant, or occupant, strata manager, owner developer, and local government clients on their rights and responsibilities
  
• save drafting time with over 50 strata property forms and precedents

Subscribe today and be strata-savvy! View a sample from this book!

Highlights of the 2025 Update include:

• repeal of ability to waive depreciation report requirement by 3/4 vote approval
• new deadlines for obtaining depreciation reports
• new definition of "qualified person" who may prepare depreciation report
• requirement that depreciation report include executive summary
• BCSC declining to award costs personally against strata lot owner opposing court application after considering Enefer (BCSC) (2005)
• BCCA declining strata corporation standing to bring representative claim under REDMA
• BCCA dismissal of strata lot owner's application for production of legal opinions, confirming application of solicitor-client privilege
• expansion of CRT jurisdiction to include claims arising under Intimate Images Protection Act resulting in renaming of CRT Rules as CRT Standard Rules
• BCSC determination that CRT has expertise and procedural tools to decide commercial strata lot owner's "significantly unfair" damages claim of over $280,000
• factors the CRT to consider in deciding on amendment of dispute notices and responses
• CRT settlement conference process made permanent
• summaries of numerous judicial reviews of CRT decisions
• summaries of dozens of new CRT decisions on diverse matters
• summaries of numerous human rights decisions involving strata corporations
• description of BC Human Rights Tribunal Case Path Pilot extended in 2024
• BCCA decision affirming chambers judge's decision to not strike petition for correction of registered strata plan as abuse of process after land titles registrar found no correctible error within its jurisdiction

Annual subscription rates are based on firm size. A monthly payment option is available.

Online subscribers can purchase a print copy of British Columbia Strata Property Practice Manual for 20% off its regular price.

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CLEBC Legal Editor
L. Joy Tataryn
jtataryn@cle.bc.ca

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