Owners corporations have been unable to enforce their own rules after a single, technical ruling by a Victorian tribunal created “anarchy” for residential buildings across the state.

The Allan government – which has been pushing for high-density strata living – is under pressure to address the technicality that has left owners unable to take disputes about nuisance, building defects or strata managers behaving badly to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

A legal precedent was set from a ruling by VCAT deputy president Teresa Bisucci, resolving a power struggle between two owners corporations in Docklands.

The ruling requires owners corporations to obtain an almost-impossible 75 per cent vote from all lot owners for non-monetary actions – such as compelling a neighbour to

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