Directors of a family-run construction company that caused a landslide resulting in a couple’s NSW Central Coast home being “effectively worthless” has been ordered to pay over $2 million dollars.
Logistics company Qube wants the High Court to clarify the scope of an adjudicator’s role in determining a contractor’s payment claims under the SOP Act.
A court has awarded only $100 in nominal damages to the owner of a $5 million industrial site in the ACT, despite finding there was cracking in a concrete slab covered by a warranty.
Developer Australia YMCI has reached an agreement with Parramatta on its application for remediation works at its $5B Ovation Quarter residential complex at Sydney Olympic Park.
Developer VSD Investments has lost an argument for withholding an $8.5 million payment claim from the builder of a 30-storey project in Sydney’s inner west pending the construction company’s appeal.
A judge has dispensed with court rules to allow shopfitter Ramvek to bring a non-compliant summary judgment application against a builder in a payment dispute, saying strict compliance with the rules was at odds with the procedure and policy of the SOPA.
A South Australian wind farm developer has lost its appeal of ruling ordering it to make a $21 million progress payment to joint venture partners GE Renewable Energy and Elecnor.
The owner of the Callide power station in Queensland, IG Power, has won court approval for a recapitalisation that will see major shareholder Sev.en inject millions to cover its debts.
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.
The High Court has been asked to weigh in on when a court should step in when the machinery governing the entitlement to payments in a contract breaks down, in a dispute between luxury home builder Glenvill and Amcor over asbestos remediation at an industrial site in the Melbourne suburb of Alphington.