Lower Court Judgment
25/09/2013 Supreme Court of New South Wales (Court of Appeal) (Basten JA, Macfarlan, JA, Leeming JA)
Catchwords
Torts - Negligence - Pure economic loss - Builder and developer of commercial premises bargained detailed contract in which developer was protected against liability for defective design and construction - Whether developer was concurrently owed duty of care by builder to exercise reasonable care in construction of building to avoid pure economic loss due to latent defects - Whether relationship between builder and developer disclosed vulnerability on part of developer - Whether successor in title was owed duty of care by builder to avoid pure economic loss due to latent defects.
14/03/2014 Hearing (SLA, Sydney)
28/03/2014 Notice of appeal
28/03/2014 Notice of cross-appeal (Respondent)
28/03/2014 Notice of contention (Respondent)
01/04/2014 Submitting appearance (Second Respondent)
22/04/2014 Written submissions (Appellant)
22/04/2014 Chronology (Appellant)
14/05/2014 Written submissions (First Respondent)
27/05/2014 Reply
18/06/2014 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)
08/10/2014 Judgment (Judgment summary)