Jodie Graham

An experienced dispute resolution and commercial litigation legal practitioner, Jodie works with clients in the body corporate and management rights sectors on all manner of strata industry disputes.

Jodie regularly advises on caretaker disputes (for both bodies corporate and managers), building defects (including QBCC complaints), contracts/maintenance agreements, partnership disputes, maintenance obligations, by-laws, scheme termination, defamation, OFT complaints, and all manner of strata enquiries, from the everyday to unique and complex scenarios.

With her dedication and intellect concentrated on the strata industry for almost a decade, Jodie has a detailed understanding of the issues her clients face. She aims to provide integrated, efficient, and effective legal advice to see her clients move through their roadblocks and forward with their lives.

• Management Rights Dispute: Successful in defending a claim against a body corporate brought by a terminated former caretaker. Read judgment
• Termination of scheme: Acted for three respondents, including former caretaker, in relation to the statutory trustees’ sale of property upon the dissolution of a scheme and the subsequent application of proceeds of sale. Read judgment
• Caretaker dispute: Successfully negotiated an holistic settlement agreement between multiple parties, including the body corporate, the manager and individual members of the scheme, to resolve various disputes across a number of jurisdictions concurrently.
• Lot entitlements: Successfully resisted lot owners’ application to adjust lot entitlements of scheme where it was determined there was no material change. Read judgment

• Body corporate and management rights dispute resolution and litigation
• All areas of strata advisory – statutory obligations, procedural and governance issues