Kayla Khamis
Kayla Khamis
Associate
T: 61 2 9929 0226
F: 61 2 8920 2427
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Associate
T: 61 2 9929 0226
F: 61 2 8920 2427
E: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kayla has been working at Bannermans since July 2017. Kayla commenced at Bannermans initially in a legal administrative role while completing her university degree, and now recently admitted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of NSW.
Kayla works in both the Building and Construction and Strata teams undertaking the following work:
Building and Construction
- Advising owners corporations on building defects, insurance claims, legal remedies, relevant limitations periods and current issues such as combustible cladding;
- Assisting with acting for owners corporations in building defect claims in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal;
- Drafting applications for building defect claims in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal;
- Briefing and engaging with technical building experts such as consultant specialists, surveyors and engineers;
- Assisting owners corporations in relation to the enforcement and supervision of work orders and settlement agreements for rectification works;
- Reviewing building contracts and advising builders and owners corporations;
- Participating in alternative dispute resolution including mediation; and
- Drafting settlement deeds and agreements.
Strata
- By-law drafting, consolidation and registration;
- Reviewing and advising on by-laws;
- Drafting applications for strata disputes in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal;
- Assisting with advising owners corporation in relation to unauthorised works and repair and maintenance responsibilities under the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015; and
- Assisting with advising owners corporations in relation to Fire Orders, particularly in respect to combustible cladding.
Qualifications/Memberships
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice 2020
- Bachelor of Laws (Australian Catholic University) 2019
- Member of the Law Society of NSW
Articles
- Defending a Water Ingress Claim: What are the Owners Corporation’s Defences?
- Claims by Owners for Damages caused by Water Ingress under s106(5)
- Be Wary of any Combustible Cladding Material in Excess of 8% PE
