Strata Plan VR 390 v. Harvey (British Columbia Supreme Court)

The strata corporation was entitled to special costs from the owners of one of the strata lots, in the following circumstances:

• The owners had willfully altered the common property without permission of, or notice to, the strata corporation.
• One of the owners had prevented the strata corporation’s workman from accessing common property.  The owner had pushed down the workman’s ladder.
• The owners had otherwise disrupted the normal repair efforts of the strata corporation.
• The owners’ misbehavior had continued even after a Court injunction was obtained to restrain it.