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Disclosures vs. Confidentiality: Navigating Body Corporate Obligations and Risks
- Known problems with the building and when or how much to disclose
- Committee minutes, accuracy and transparency versus protecting commercial confidence
- Statutory disclosure obligations versus confidentiality and privilege in a claim involving an owner
Presented by Iain Stephenson, Director, Stephenson Law
Chair
Tim Jones, Barrister
Learning Objectives:
- Understand statutory disclosure obligations for bodies corporate and how they intersect with confidentiality and privilege
- Learn strategies for balancing transparency in communications, including committee minutes, with protecting commercial confidence
Presenters
Iain Stephenson, Director, Stephenson Law
Iain is a Building Law and Construction Disputes specialist. He specialises in building compliance, property decision-making, and repair/maintenance projects for existing buildings. Over the past decade Iain has worked with contractors, consenting authorities, commercial and residential clients, and central government. This includes project and contract disputes, and decision making. A significant client following for Iain is the multi-unit buildings sector (mainly Unit Titles). He has appeared in the Tenancy Tribunal, District Court, High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
Tim Jones, Barrister
As one of New Zealand’s foremost property lawyers Tim Jones has been practising since 1975; first at Simpson Grierson and for 38 years as a member of and partner at Glaister Ennor in Auckland. He led Glaister Ennor’s residential and land development team for many years. That team dealt with a broad range of property transactions from sales and purchases of all types of properties to the sale of developments for property developers including a significant number of unit title developments. Tim developed an intimate understanding of land development following the passing of the Resource Management Act 1991. He also has a keen understanding and knowledge of unit titles and was involved in the mid-1970s with developers who were the forerunners of the land development industry, using the 1972 Unit Titles Act for multi-unit developments. Tim has been involved with the drafting of the Unit Titles Act 2010 and the amendment Act 2022. Since 2018 Tim has been practicing as a barrister sole advising on a broad range of land, property and unit title problems. Tim has always been heavily involved in Law Society affairs. He was the Auckland Vice President of the New Zealand Law Society Board.
