The Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017 (Qld) (the Act) will come into force on 16 April 2018. The Act requires that all labour hire providers in Queensland hold a licence and that if you are utilising the services of a labour hire provider, you must only hire workers from a licensed provider. Penalties for failing to comply […]
If you receive an adjudication decision that may be subject to being set aside for jurisdictional error, do you have to pay? Another recent QLD case Low v MCC Pty Ltd [2018] QSC 006, Jackson J considered, inter alia, an argument that the interlocutory injunction sought – which was to restrain the enforcement of adjudication decisions which[…]
Don’t give an adjudicator the chance to get it wrong –Two recent high decisions have confirmed that even if an adjudication decision is wrong at law, it cannot be set-aside unless the adjudicator’s error is ‘jurisdictional’ in nature: Probuild Constructions (Aust) Pty Ltd v Shade Systems Pty Ltd [2018] HCA 4 and Maxcon Constructions Pty Ltd v[…]