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Tort

Rayman v Brown

The Court found negligence in sheet piling works that damaged the Rayman home, rejected a non-delegable duty argument, and awarded damages plus interest.

  • Duty of care
  • Civil liability act 2002 (nsw) s 5b
  • Conveyancing act 1919 (nsw) s 177
  • Proportionate liability
  • Damages for diminution in value
  • Improperly obtained evidence
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Building and construction

SBRGroup Pty Ltd v Hosseini

The District Court held a payment claim was valid despite referring to a non-existent cost-plus contract, and entered judgment for the builder for $153,389.17.

  • Security of payment
  • Payment claim validity
  • Payment schedule not served
  • Contract termination
  • Cost-plus contract
  • Agency
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Building and construction

Tan v Platinumhomeland Pty Ltd

The District Court awarded the homeowners rectification damages, incidental expert expenses, interest, and costs against an unlicensed builder and its director.

  • Defective residential building work
  • Statutory warranties
  • Design and building practitioners duty of care
  • Misleading or deceptive conduct
  • Rectification damages
  • Pre-judgment interest
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Building and construction

Spectrum Pools & Spas Pty Ltd v Young

The Appeal Panel refused leave and dismissed Spectrum’s appeal over a retaining wall damages award, upholding the Tribunal’s view that the pool work had to be fit for purpose.

  • Home building contract
  • Statutory warranties
  • Scope of work
  • Retaining wall
  • Money order versus work order
  • Costs on appeal
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Arbitration

Qube Re Services (No 2) Pty Limited in its capacity as trustee of the Moorebank Industrial Terminals Assets Trust v Martinus Rail Pty Ltd

Partial arbitral awards were enforced as judgments. The Court held SOPA policy was not the kind of public policy that barred enforcement under s 36.

  • Enforcement of partial arbitral awards
  • Public policy objection to enforcement
  • Security of payment act policy
  • Interest on judgment debt
  • Costs of proceedings
  • Arbitration-enforcement
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Building and construction

OPES Lifestyle Homes Pty Ltd v KMA Concrete Constructions Pty Ltd

Appeal Panel refused leave to appeal and dismissed OPES’s appeal, holding the alleged contract variation was sufficiently certain and the new points could not be run for the first time.

  • Contract variation
  • Certainty of terms
  • Consideration
  • Intention to create legal relations
  • Scope of appeal on question of law
  • Leave to appeal
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Building and construction

Hanicog Pty Ltd v Belle Lifestyle Homes Australia Pty Ltd

The Tribunal ordered Belle to pay Hanicog $47,585.40 for an undisclosed payment to Hanicog’s agent, but dismissed the ACL, defect and delay claims.

  • Secret commission
  • Fiduciary duty
  • Defective residential building work
  • Practical completion
  • Misleading or deceptive conduct
  • Costs directions
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Building and construction

Murray v Insurance and Care NSW t/as iCare

The Tribunal dismissed a claim for refund of a home building compensation premium, holding it was not a building claim and fell outside its jurisdiction.

  • Home building act 1989 (nsw) part 3a jurisdiction
  • Meaning of building claim
  • Refund of home building compensation insurance premium
  • Collateral contract
  • Appeal against insurer decision
  • Building-and-construction
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Building and construction

JK and K Pty Ltd v MoMA Pty Ltd

The Tribunal dismissed a landowner’s statutory warranty claim, holding the architect’s subdivision-application services were too remote from residential building work under the Home Building Act.

  • Home building act statutory warranties
  • Jurisdiction
  • Due care and skill
  • Subdivision documentation
  • Residential building work
  • Home-building-act
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