What has emerged in recent years is not a clarification of the law governing pipes and drains in strata corporations, but a troubling distortion of it. A growing line of Civil Resolution Tribunal decisions has drifted from that framework, elevating an overly broad reading of Taychuk v. Strata Plan LMS 744 and Fudge v. Strata Plan NW 2636 into something approaching a blanket rule that any pipe or drain connected to a larger system is common property.
