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Southern Han Breakfast Point Pty Ltd (in Liquidation) v. Lewence Construction Pty Ltd & Ors

Case No. S199/2016

Case information

Lower Court Judgment

25/09/2015 Supreme Court of New South Wales (Court of Appeal) (Ward JA, Emmett JA, Sackville AJA)

[2015] NSWCA 288

Catchwords

Administrative law – Jurisdictional error – Reference date – Whether the existence of a reference date in s 8 of the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) to support a payment claim is a jurisdictional fact.

Short particulars

Documents

28/07/2016 Hearing (SLA, Brisbane)

10/08/2016 Notice of appeal

30/08/2016 Submitting Appearance (Second Respondent)

30/08/2016 Submitting Appearance (Third Respondent)

01/09/2016 Written submissions (Appellant)

01/09/2016 Chronology (Appellant)

22/09/2016 Written submissions (First Respondent)

04/10/2016 Reply

12/10/2016 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)

21/12/2016 Judgment (Judgment summary)