3 Mar 2021
JONES LANG LASALLE LTD v SOFT TECHNOLOGY JR LTD [2021] NZHC 351
- Citation
- (2021) 22 NZCPR 58
- Court
- High Court
Court found Jones Lang introduced ATEED to Soft Tech and that introduction was an effective cause of the ATEED lease; the Manu One lease did not render the property fully leased so the agency endured; ATEED was not an "associate" of Manu One under the agency agreement; s126 governs recovery of commission but does not invalidate agency agreements or bar judicial relief where agent's failure to deliver a signed copy was inadvertent; Jones Lang's failure to provide the countersigned agreement within 48 hours was occasioned by inadvertence; accordingly relief under s126(2)-(3) is potentially avai…
- Lease commission
- Real estate agents act s126
- Introduction/causation for agency commission
- Associate clause
- Inadvertence
- Quantum issues