Members of the firm were involved in 2011 in two decisions of the Auckland High Court in relation to the Fair Trading Act 1986 (“FTA”).
A recent decision in the High Court in Rotorua illustrates the importance of reading contractual documents prior to signing them. A drilling company was held bound by the terms of an exclusion clause in a contract with a supplier preventing it from recovering all of its losses alleged caused by the supplier negligently carrying out repair work to drilling equipment.
A recent report on National Radio confirmed that the government’s Financial Assistance Package (“FAP”) to leaky home owners has failed to make even a small dent in the number of leaky homes.
The FAP was established in 2011 as a repair scheme enabling leaky home owners to access funds from the government and participating territorial authorities to fix their homes.