Carter Newell

A court has ruled that the body corporate of a block of units can bring a contract claim against builder Devine in its own name, finding that parliament did not intend to import the technical legal meaning of ‘subrogation’ into legislation governing owners corporations.

The developer of a $50 million apartment complex in Brisbane’s West End has lost its bid to add a new claim to its case against builder Devine, with a judge saying the developer was attempting to tell a “fundamentally different story” to the existing case, weeks out from trial.

Insurer Liberty is not on the hook for costs incurred by Seymour Whyte Construction for dealing with asbestos-contaminated soil, but is liable to cover legal fees for advice sought by the company.

A luxury Hamilton Island resort has lost its bid to vary the form of security ordered last year in its $15 million suit over allegedly defective rectification works completed in the wake of Cyclone Debbie. 

A joint venture launched to construct sections of Brisbane's new Cross River Rail station has successfully challenged an adjudicator’s order that it pay $2.7 million to a steel supplier.

An appeals court has rejected a challenge by a woman who said she was given negligent advice by her lawyers about two settlement offers which she rejected, finding that she would not have taken advice to accept the offers in any case.

The University of Sydney has lost a bid to amend its claims against a consultant in litigation over allegedly defective building work carried out on its Charles Perkins Centre in Camperdown.

Award-wining architecture firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall and its former boss have agreed to pay a combined $975,000 in penalties for attempting to rig bids on a $250 million building project at Charles Darwin University.

A judge has found Downer Energy was responsible for a costly shutdown at a NSW power plant caused by a “practically unthinkable” defect.