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JanThis week, Aleisha MacKenzie and Michael Burgess take a look at Prime Costs and Provisional Sums which can often be a point of dispute between a home owner and their builder in domestic building contracts. Often the cause of this dispute is because owners (and often builders) do not understand what PC and PS are and the […]
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DecBackground The Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC) must not grant a license if a person is an excluded individual for a relevant event. An individual becomes excluded if they are a director, secretary or influential person for a construction company, within one year immediately before a ‘relevant company event’. In 2014 and 2015 the Queensland Building[…]
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SepConfirmed – a company that only carries out building work in another State or Territory will fall within the definition of “construction company” under section 56AC of the QBCC Act – Midson Construction (Qld) Pty Ltd & Ors v QBCC & Ors The recent Supreme Court of Queensland decision of His Honour, Crow J, in Midson Construction[…]
