Shane is a Special Counsel in our Corporate & Commercial Team.
Shane is an industry expert in strata and community titles law, practicing exclusively in all aspects of body corporate and community management law and management rights. She regularly assists body corporates, body corporate committees, management rights owners, lot owners, body corporate managers and developers with a broad range of issues including resolution of complex disputes.
Experience & expertise
Shane has a deep understanding of both the body corporate industry and the management rights industries, developed through more than nineteen (19) years of practicing exclusively in these areas. She provides accurate and easily understood advice and has a proven reputation for achieving results for her clients.
Shane has expertise in all areas of strata law including:
- Body Corporate law, governance and dispute resolution
- acting for parties in relation to purchase and sale of management rights
- advising Body Corporates in relation to the assignment of management rights
- drafting new caretaking and letting agreements, extensions and variations
- drafting new community management statements including by-law reviews, grants of exclusive use of common property and renovation and landscaping codes
- making and responding to adjudication applications in the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management
- resolving management rights disputes in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal;
Shane’s experience and expertise ensures that transactions proceed smoothly and innovative solutions can be found for more complex issues. Shane enjoys sharing knowledge and regularly presents seminars to body corporate managers and lot owners as well as stakeholders in the management rights industry.
Work highlights
- Restructure of community titles schemes, including:
- Acting for a layered scheme in Port Douglas in which the developer retained ownership of the recreation facilities, negotiating the purchase of the recreational facilities from the developer and reconfiguring common property to include the recreation facilities; and
- Acting for a multi-layered scheme in Townsville to restructure it to a basic scheme involving the registration in Titles Qld of more than seventeen new community management statements and survey plans.
- Acting for numerous Body Corporates and Onsite Managers in the resolution of complex disputes in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal including obtaining an Order that the interest schedule lot entitlements for the scheme be readjusted to reflect the market value principle in Geegeez Pty Ltd v Body Corporate for 92 Abbott Street CTS 29083 [2026] QCAT 84
- Acting for numerous Body Corporates and lot owners in preparing and lodging or responding to Adjudication Applications in the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management, including successfully defending applications that a Body Corporate has acted unreasonably such as in The Lakes – Cairns [2025] QBCCMCmr 123 (11 April 2025)
- Acting for numerous Body Corporates in assignment of management rights transactions
- Acting for numerous Body Corporates and management rights owners in the drafting and/or review of management agreements and the variation of same
- Acting for Buyers or Sellers of managements rights in the purchase or sale of management rights businesses in North Queensland and South East Queensland.
Professional background
