{"id":3249,"date":"2012-02-03T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T04:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2012-02-03T15:05:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T04:05:24","slug":"building-and-construction-law-journal-update-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2012\/02\/03\/building-and-construction-law-journal-update-february-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Building and Construction Law Journal update: February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of the <em>Building and Construction Law Journal <\/em>(Volume 28 Part 1) contains the following material:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legalonline.thomson.com.au\/jour\/resultDetailed.jsp?curRequestedHref=journals\/BCL\/volumes\/28&amp;contentSourceHref=journals\/BCL\/volumes\/28\/parts\/1\/articles\/3_E\/fulltext&amp;tocType=fullText&amp;hitListPageContext=http:\/\/legalonline.thomson.com.au\/jour\/resultSummary.jsp?curRequestedHref=journals\/BCL\/volumes\/28___tocType=fullText___sortBy=publicationYear\/articleDate&amp;searchId=11&amp;hit=1&amp;hits=3&amp;articleType=fulltext&amp;freeText=&amp;titleCode=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EDITORIAL<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Disclosure in relationship contracting<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ARTICLE<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/legalonline.thomson.com.au\/jour\/resultDetailed.jsp?curRequestedHref=journals\/BCL\/volumes\/28&amp;contentSourceHref=journals\/BCL\/volumes\/28\/parts\/1\/articles\/4\/fulltext&amp;tocType=fullText&amp;hitListPageContext=http:\/\/legalonline.thomson.com.au\/jour\/resultSummary.jsp?curRequestedHref=journals\/BCL\/volumes\/28___tocType=fullText___sortBy=publicationYear\/articleDate&amp;searchId=11&amp;hit=2&amp;hits=3&amp;articleType=fulltext&amp;freeText=&amp;titleCode=SiaT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Storm in a Tabcorp<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c <\/em>Kelvin Keane<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The assessment of the measure of damages for building defects travelled on a relatively unspectacular path since the seminal judgement of Bellgrove v Eldridge. The decision of Ruxley v Forsyth was thought to inject some fresh impetus by broadening the award of diminution value damages. This expansion, however, hit a brick wall in the Tabcorp case where the High Court reaffirmed the ruling principle of contract expectation. The court stated that it was to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fairly exceptional\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that the reasonableness of damages was displaced and only after a test of unreasonableness was satisfied. An examination of post-Tabcorp decisions provides some guidance on the position of the courts and building tribunals to the present time.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase this article, complete the <a href=\"..\/subscribe-or-purchase\/individual-article-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Individual Article Sale<\/a> order form and email it to <a href=\"mailto:tlranz.journal.orders@thomsonreuters.com\">tlranz.journal.orders@thomsonreuters.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legalonline.thomson.com.au\/jour\/resultDetailed.jsp?curRequestedHref=journals\/BCL\/volumes\/28&amp;contentSourceHref=journals\/BCL\/volumes\/28\/parts\/1\/articles\/19\/fulltext&amp;tocType=fullText&amp;hitListPageContext=http:\/\/legalonline.thomson.com.au\/jour\/resultSummary.jsp?curRequestedHref=journals\/BCL\/volumes\/28___tocType=fullText___sortBy=publicationYear\/articleDate&amp;searchId=11&amp;hit=3&amp;hits=3&amp;articleType=fulltext&amp;freeText=&amp;titleCode=R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">REPORTS<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>K &amp; J Burns Electrical Pty Ltd v GRD Group (NT) Pty Ltd<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>John Holland Pty Ltd v Walz Marine Services Pty Ltd<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the pdf version of the table of contents, click here:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2012\/02\/03\/building-and-construction-law-journal-update-february-2012\/bldg-constn-law-jnl-conts-vol-28-no-1-feb-12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3250\">BCL Vol 28 Pt 1 contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Part for Volume 28 of the Building and Construction Law Journal contains an article discussing the assessment of the measure of damages for building defects and a review of decisions since the Tabcorp case providing guidance on the position of the courts and building tribunals. There are also two cases reported: K &#038; J Burns Electrical Pty Ltd v GRD Group (NT) Pty Ltd and John Holland Pty Ltd v Walz Marine Services Pty Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,39],"tags":[1589,1590,195,1591,1592,1593,1594,1595],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-and-construction-law-journal","category-update-summaries","tag-bellgrove-v-eldridge","tag-building-defects","tag-disclosure","tag-john-holland-pty-ltd-v-walz-marine-services-pty-ltd","tag-k-j-burns-electrical-pty-ltd-v-grd-group-nt-pty-ltd","tag-kelvin-keane","tag-ruxley-v-forsyth","tag-tabcorp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}