Payment schedules
Communications about payment schedules can be electronic or snail mail. For the Courts, the form of the written communication isn’t an issue, but a failure to meet some key requirements may be.
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Communications about payment schedules can be electronic or snail mail. For the Courts, the form of the written communication isn’t an issue, but a failure to meet some key requirements may be.
Creditors are the beneficiaries following recent Court rulings clarifying the Companies Act 1993 section 296 defence for voidable transactions and the continuing business relationship test.
The government is moving to protect retention funds by requiring the money to be held in trust in a separate bank account.
Claims against faulty building work need to be brought within a 10-year long-stop period. Recent court cases have clarified how this defence applies to design work and product manufacturers and suppliers.
With seismic strengthening a hot topic, the Courts have been busy clarifying the level of earthquake strengthening councils can require.
The High Court ruled that the person controlling a workplace must take all practicable steps to protect those on site, as well as strangers in the vicinity, from harm.