Construction Law Resources
Videos
3. Referring to Adjudication
In this video we examine the adjudication process. This video considers whether the adjudicator’s decision should be quashed where the adjudicator knew that the referral had been made outside the 20 day period, yet proceeded to conduct the adjudication regardless.
Construction Law Updates
Consequential loss: a new approach
No. 1302
This Update reports on a further aspect of the recent Alstom decision dealing with the refurbishment of Playford B power station in South Australia. We have previously reported on the nature of the subcontract and on the obligation of a head contractor to provide a detailed works program to the subcontractor. In this Update, we discuss a new approach to the classification of compensation for breaches of contract.
Papers and Articles
A Survival Course – Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2009 (SA)
A Survival Course on the new Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2009 (SA) – Master Builders Association Presentation 4th February 2010 – Presented by Robert Fenwick Elliott
Books and Publications
The Worker’s Liens Casebook
by Robert Fenwick Elliott
The Worker’s Liens Casebook by Robert Fenwick Elliott is now on sale for $145.
Legislation
Legislation
This page contains links to some of the most-often referred to Australian national and state legislation that is most relevant to construction and engineering law.
Cases
Alstom v Yokogawa (No. 7): Good Faith Et Al
There are some seminal decisions in the area of construction law that are remarkably pithy, but the decision of Justice Bleby in Alstom Ltd v Yokogawa Australia Pty Ltd (No 7) [2012] SASC 49, in which judgment was delivered on 2 April 2012, is not one of them. The judgment runs to 461 pages, and Continue Reading »
Adjudication
Romeo v TQM Design and Construct Pty Limited [2013] NSWCA 72
When parties to a construction contract fall into dispute, and settle those disputes by means of a deed of settlement, is that deed of settlement a construction contract which can found a payment claim under the Security of Payment legislation? In this case the settlement deed proved for an initial payment, and then payment of Continue Reading »
Legal notes
Consensual Adjudication
There are a number of features of adjudication in Australia that differ from its older brother in the UK; one of them is in the use of consensual adjudication.