{"id":13015,"date":"2020-07-17T10:49:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T00:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/?p=13015"},"modified":"2020-07-17T10:49:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T00:49:40","slug":"building-and-construction-law-journal-update-vol-36-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2020\/07\/17\/building-and-construction-law-journal-update-vol-36-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Building and Construction Law Journal update: Vol 36 Pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Please note that the links to the content in this Part will direct you to Westlaw AU.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase an article, please email: LTA.Service@thomsonreuters.com or contact us on 1300 304 195 (Australian customers) or +61 2 8587 7980 (international customers) during business hours (Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm AST).<\/p>\n<p>The latest issue of the <em>Building and Construction Law Journal<\/em> (Volume 35 Part 6) contains the following material:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westlaw.com.au\/maf\/wlau\/ext\/app\/document?docguid=I287a4c14c5fe11eab306d55769e1257b&amp;tocDs=AUNZ_AU_JOURNALS_TOC&amp;isTocNav=true&amp;startChunk=1&amp;endChunk=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EDITORIAL<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>Editor: Michael Christie SC<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A Major Recent Legal Landmark<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westlaw.com.au\/maf\/wlau\/ext\/app\/document?docguid=I287a4c16c5fe11eab306d55769e1257b&amp;tocDs=AUNZ_AU_JOURNALS_TOC&amp;isTocNav=true&amp;startChunk=1&amp;endChunk=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd \u00e2\u20ac\u201c New Law for Quantum Meruit Claims in Building Contracts<\/strong><\/em><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Laina Chan and JW Carter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd was the first time that the High Court considered the issue of whether a claim in restitution for reasonable remuneration (quantum meruit) is available when a building contract is discharged following a repudiation. In Australia, intermediate appellate courts for the last three decades had determined that an innocent party who terminated a contract for repudiation could elect between damages for breach of contract and for the reasonable value of the work that had been done pursuant to the contract prior to discharge. The High Court has now held that the amount recoverable is subject to a ceiling referable to the contract price. The article considers the reasoning and appropriateness of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>REPORTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westlaw.com.au\/maf\/wlau\/ext\/app\/document?docguid=I287a4c18c5fe11eab306d55769e1257b&amp;tocDs=AUNZ_AU_JOURNALS_TOC&amp;isTocNav=true&amp;startChunk=1&amp;endChunk=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westlaw.com.au\/maf\/wlau\/ext\/app\/document?docguid=I287a4c17c5fe11eab306d55769e1257b&amp;tocDs=AUNZ_AU_JOURNALS_TOC&amp;isTocNav=true&amp;startChunk=1&amp;endChunk=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><strong>Visual Building Construction Pty Ltd v Armitstead (No 2)<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the PDF version of the table of contents, click here: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/07\/BCL-Vol-36-No-1-Contents.pdf\">BCL Vol 36 No 1 Contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Ou1WQQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to access this Part on Westlaw AU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For general queries, please contact: tlranz.journal.orders@thomsonreuters.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Part of the Building and Construction Law Journal includes this article: &#8220;Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd \u00e2\u20ac\u201c New Law for Quantum Meruit Claims in Building Contracts&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Laina Chan and JW Carter. Also in this Part is an Editorial and Reports on the following cases: Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd; Visual Building Construction Pty Ltd v Armitstead (No 2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":11957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,38,39],"tags":[15424,8541,40,15425,2453,14058,8460,13306,15426,618,873,15427,15428],"class_list":["post-13015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-and-construction-law-journal","category-journals","category-update-summaries","tag-a-major-recent-legal-landmark","tag-articles","tag-bcl","tag-building-contract","tag-editorial","tag-jw-carter","tag-laina-chan","tag-mann-v-paterson-constructions-pty-ltd","tag-mann-v-paterson-constructions-pty-ltd-new-law-for-quantum-meruit-claims-in-building-contracts","tag-michael-christie-sc","tag-reports","tag-repudiation","tag-visual-building-construction-pty-ltd-v-armitstead-no-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}