Probuild Constructions (Aust) Pty Ltd v Shade Systems Pty Ltd

Administrative law – Judicial review – Availability of certiorari – Error of law on face of record – Non-jurisdictional error – Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) – Where Act confers entitlement to "progress payment" on persons who undertake to carry out construction work under construction contracts and provides scheme for determining disputed claims – Where first respondent made claim for progress payment – Where claim referred to adjudicator for determination – Where adjudicator made error of law in reasons for determination – Where reasons form part of record – Whether Act ousts jurisdiction of Supreme Court of New South Wales to make order in nature of certiorari to quash determination for non-jurisdictional error of law on face of record.

Words and phrases – "clear legislative intention", "error of law on the face of the record", "interim entitlement", "jurisdictional error", "non-jurisdictional error", "order in the nature of certiorari".

Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) – Pts 2, 3.

Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW) – ss 22, 69.