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How To Build a Security Of Payments Act Claim and Response

Following recent amendments to the WA Building and Construction Act, claimants and respondents alike may be left asking how these changes will impact the Security of Payments Act ('SOPA') claim process. Building and construction law is a complex branch of law with numerous courts and tribunals. Consequently, Solomon Brothers advocate for adapting the approach to different claim types to best pr...
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construction skills shortage WA

Infrastructure expenditure affecting the Western Australian construction market

Over the last 12 months, there have been numerous reports of a skills shortage in the Western Australian building and construction industry – in both blue and white-collar sectors. While the current boom is nowhere near that of 2012, there are a number of factors making it more difficult to top up the Western Australian building and construction industry from outside sources.

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Are you SOPA Ready?

This week (on 22 June 2021), amendments to the WA regime as set out in the Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Bill 2021 were passed by both houses of WA Parliament and is currently awaiting formal assent by Governor. With a Western Australian security of payment regime set to undergo a root and branch overhaul, it is time to ask yourself: Am I SOPA ready?

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Valmont Interiors Pty Ltd v Giorgio Armani Australia Pty Ltd

Time Bars vs Estoppel: Valmont Interiors Case

At the heart of the appeal was the question of whether an estoppel would operate to prevent a party, which directed additional works outside the express contractual variation regime, from bringing those works back within the contractual variation regime and then using the time bar provisions of that regime to bar the claim.

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Boilerplate terms of contracts can have a significant impact on the conduct of construction disputes.

Notes on Boilerplate Terms of Contracts Impacting Construction Disputes

This is a short article regarding two dissimilar cases, both of which focus attention on the fact that the boilerplate terms of contracts can have a significant impact on the conduct of construction disputes.

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Worlds collide

When Worlds Collide: Indemnities Vs Limitations of Liability

While the usual caveats that apply to the impact of decisions refusing to grant summary judgment apply to NRW Contracting Pty Ltd v Cliffs Asia Pacific Iron Ore Pty Ltd [2020] WASCA 2020, there are at least important take-aways from the decision. The fact that it is a Court of Appeal decision also makes it worthy of note.

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Construction Law

“Construct Only” Contract, but is it really?

  The phrases “construct only contract” and “design and build contract” are ubiquitous within the Australian construction and building industries. On the face of it, the differences between the two are self-explanatory: The “construct only” contract, known as the “traditional” form of procurement, involves a contractor entering into an arrangement for the construction of a project...
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Kilmaley Investments

Kilmaley Investments: Putting the brakes on the assignment of statutory compensation

The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in Kilmaley Investments Pty Ltd v City of Wanneroo [2019] WASCA 156 is an interesting development in case law relating to the assignability of a right to statutory compensation.

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Construction Law

Is the Quantum Meruit Party Over? Renard Constructions Under the Spotlight

The main issue concerns a builder’s ability to recover money for the entirety of the work performed on a quantum meruit basis as an alternative to contractual damages where the owner repudiates the contract.

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