The industry has been told to take note as NSW and Victoria tighten defect rules and liability insurance shifts into standard ...

Ask an owner, a contractor and an architect to define "consequential damages" and you'll probably get three different answers. Nearly two centuries after Hadley v. Baxendale, 9 Exch. 341, 156 Eng. Rep ...

The claims against estate agents for latent defects discovered after the purchase of immovable property are frequently pursued without a full appreciation of the legal requirements that must be ...

Digital Edition: Latent defects insurance Question: We’re looking at taking a prelet on a new office building. As we will have to sign the lease before the space is completed, what’s our position if ...

The Oregon Court of Appeals determined on July 21, 2021, that a commercial landlord had no obligation to remedy latent construction defects under a "build to suit" lease, since the lease did not ...