Obligations to remedy non-compliance by past owners
By Frana Divich, Heaney and Partners. Recently the High Court was asked to decide what it described as “a short but not particularly easy point”...
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A tough lesson over swimming pool fencing
Photo supplied: BUCHANAN AND MARSHALL v TASMAN DISTRICT COUNCIL [2023] NZHC 53 By Frana Divich, partner, Heaney & Partners. The High Court recently found that...
Defending building defects claims
By Sarah Macky, Heaney and Partners. A decision delivered by the High Court in March of this year is a helpful reminder of the challenges...
The ‘longstop’ provision in the Building Act 2004
By Frana Divich, Heaney and Partners. One of the things that makes the law interesting is that different legal brains can come to different decisions...