Construction Wednesday, 8 April 2015 View in browser

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Reitsma Constructions Pty Ltd v Davies Engineering Pty Ltd t/as In City Steel (NSWSC) - security of payments - payment claim was valid - adjudicator’s determination not quashed
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Reitsma Constructions Pty Ltd v Davies Engineering Pty Ltd t/as In City Steel [2015] NSWSC 343
Supreme Court of New South Wales
Ball J
Security of payments - plaintiff sought to quash adjudication in favour of first defendant - whether payment claim was invalid because it was second payment claim served in respect of relevant reference date in contravention of s13(5) Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) - held: adjudicator did not err in concluding second payment claim was valid - parties had agreed to service of second payment claim in substitution of first - summons dismissed.
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