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New Zealand Case Law

Security services costs
  • 8 Dec 2021

    WONG SUN EEN & ORS v BODY CORPORATE 384911 [2021] NZCA 665

    Citation
    [2021] NZCA 665
    Court
    Court of Appeal

    The Court allowed the appeal and set aside the ordinary resolution because, applying s 210, the incidence of a $29,000 per month 24/7 security contract levied across all unit owners was unjust and inequitable for the minority: the security was directed at supporting a hotel operation from which the minority did not participate, the cost was disproportionate (approximately $348,000 pa versus conventional security of about $25,000 pa), and the minority thereby subsidised hotel operational costs to an extent that met the high threshold of material unfairness required by s 210.