Construct Law News

This 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 […]

Background 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’.[…]

Confirmed – 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[…]

Congratulations to Construct Law Groups fearless leader, Aleisha MacKenzie – winner of the HIA Professional Services Award and a finalist in HIA Business Woman and finalist in HIA Professional Women of the year 2018

Congratulations to Kirsty Stewart who has been promoted to Senior Associate at Construct Law Group effective from 1 April 2018. Kirsty is a lawyer with 11 years post qualification experience in the area of building and construction. Kirsty has experience across a range of matters, from large-scale construction disputes in[…]

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[…]