Website advertising may determine obligations under a construction contract    

Quilkey & Anor v Tractile Combined Pty Ltd & Ors [2023] QDC 204 Sian Keast  |  Sarah Cahill  |  Jarryd Cox (more…)

Pafburn Appeal: No proportionate liability defence to duty of care under the Design & Building Practitioners Act   

The Owners – Strata Plan No 84674 v Pafburn Pty Ltd [2023] NSWCA 301 Andrew Hales |  Maciej Getta  |  Luke Sundercombe (more…)

NSWCA rejects owners’ façade sunshades application for leave to appeal  

The Owners – Strata Plan No 97315 v Icon Co (NSW) Pty Ltd [2023] NSWCA 303 Andrew Hales |  Emily Miers (more…)

Casting sun and shade on contractual conformity  

The Owners – Strata Plan No 97315 v Icon Co (NSW) Pty Ltd [2023] NSWSC 363 Andrew Hales |  Emily Miers (more…)

A payment schedule that does not provide reasons for withholding is invalid  

Turnkey Innovative Engineering Pty Ltd v Witron Australia Pty Ltd [2023] NSWSC 981 Andrew Hales |  Michelle Knight  |  Sarah Summers (more…)

‘Conditional’ practical completion: practically incomplete, legally invalid  

H & M Constructions (NSW) Pty Ltd v Golden Rain Development Pty Ltd (No 4) [2023] NSWSC 925 Andrew Hales |  Maciej Getta  |  Ersen Ahmet (more…)

Fourth time unlucky? Dualcorp issue estoppel prevents re-agitation in adjudications

Karam Group Pty Ltd ATF The Karam (No. 1) Family Trust v HCA Queensland & Ors  [2023] QSC 245 Andrew Orford  |  Gemma Osborne | Aidan Kleynhans (more…)

Courts’ power to issue subpoenas in support of arbitration

we-do-IT Pty Ltd v we-do-IT-Inc [Delaware] [2023] VSC 611 Andrew Orford  |  Isobel Carmody  |  Aria Saffar (more…)

Length does not define thoroughness in the pressure cooker of adjudication

Niclin Constructions Pty Ltd v Robotic Steel Fab Pty Ltd & Anor [2023] QSC 218 David Pearce  |  Petrina Macpherson  |  Jarryd Cox (more…)

Internal restructure may tank Qantas’ entitlement to damages

Qantas Airways Limited & Anor v BMD Constructions Pty Limited  [2023] QSC 206 Andrew Orford |  Alex Hammerton | Aidan Kleynhans (more…)