Vincent Young

An appeals court has granted a builder's appeal in a dispute over payments for work on the Seasons of Perth hotel, finding the strict one-day deadline for serving an adjudication review application under Western Australia's Security of Payment Act is a jurisdictional requirement. 

A court has extended urgent freezing orders against the developers of the $133 million Babylon Apartments in the north-west Sydney suburb of Rouse Hill, in a dispute over a builder's payment debt.

The parents of Luxcon boss Ilya Melnikoff have failed to convince a judge they should not have to pay back a mortgage and guarantee to lenders who gave their son's companies a $13.9 million advance to buy property in Byron Bay and a $3.8 million tax-related loan.

A judge has dismissed an application for a freezing order against the developer behind a NSW Central Coast office block at the centre of a class action over defects including sub-par air conditioning.

A judge has dismissed an application for a freezing order against the developer behind a NSW Central Coast office block at the centre of a class action over alleged defects, including sub-par air conditioning.

Construction company Lipman has struck out in its bid to claw back a $7 million payment determination made in A-Civil’s favour, with a court finding no error by an adjudicator. 

The owner of Seasons of Perth Hotel has notched a partial victory in its fight with construction company Reward Group over performance bonds.

The owner of the Seasons of Perth Hotel seeks want to quash a review determination of an adjudicator's decision in its dispute with hotel construction company Reward Group over performance bonds for work on the hotel.

A court has ordered builder Kuatro Build to pay concrete subcontractor Elite Formwork more than $500,000 in progress payments for work on a Sydney development, finding no error in an adjudicator's determination.

The former general manager of iProsperity has lost his challenge to the collapsed fund manager's liquidators getting more time to investigate $18 million in payments he received, with the Full Court finding they were not wrong to prioritise investigations into $62.5 million in payments to Crown and The Star.