E-Alert: Building, Engineering, Construction and Infrastructure

What’s insolvency got to do with it…. Times are tough in the Queensland construction industry. In recent times we have seen the demise of names [...]

E-Alert: Building, Construction and Infrastructure

Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. Well, sort of. Sometimes, those who can’t don’t teach. Sometimes, they supervise other people who can’t instead…. [...]

E-Alert: Are Oral Building Contracts enforcable?

In Nichols v Earth Spirit Homes Pty Ltd [2015] QCA 219 (Nichols), the Queensland Court of Appeal held that a contract for ‘building work’[1] which [...]

E-Alert: The Net Tangible Assets Issue

In the past two e-alerts we have referred to the concept of Net Tangible Assets (NTAs), but what are they and why are they relevant? [...]