Court: Only unit owners can be in high-rise management corporations


PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal here has affirmed a High Court ruling that the Commissioner of Buildings (COB) was right in deciding that only unit owners and not their proxies can be elected as council members of high-rise management corporations.

The Court of Appeal panel, comprising Justices Clement Allan Skinner, Linton Albert and Lim Yee Lan, upheld the decision by Penang High Court Justice John Louis O'Hara in what was the first judgment of its kind in the country.

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