Western Australia 2008 Report – Construction Contracts Act WA

The arbitrator & mediator, which is the journal of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia, has published in Volume 27, No 2, page 33 the paper delivered at the 2008 IAMA conference of Peter Gow on the Construction Contracts Act in Western Australia. His overall conclusion is that the WA Act is working pretty much as intended, with only a few decisions having been challenged in the courts.

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