7 AIRD STREET PARRAMATTA

JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS – final quantification of costs for rectification works – final orders for damages, interest and costs – no issue of principle

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION – building works on a large residential apartment building – Owners of strata plan, as successors in title, rely upon entitlements to sue on statutory warranties against the builder and developer – Home Building Act 1989 (NSW), ss 18B, 18C, 18D – determination of whether defects were ‘major’ defects – Home Building Act 1989 (NSW), s 18E(4) BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION – whether District Court empowered to make a ‘work order’ where the alternative claim for relief, a money claim, exceeds the monetary jurisdiction of the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal – Home Building Act 1989 (NSW), ss 48A, 48K, 48L, 48MA, 48O CIVIL PROCEDURE – exercise of power to make directions for parties to take specified steps and the time for such steps to be completed by – directions for further reports on issues concerning rectification costs