All publications relating to 'Helen Kow­al'

What are you actu­al­ly buy­ing into when you buy a Stra­ta Unit?

Sep 3, 2024

It is impor­tant to under­stand what you are respon­si­ble for and what you actu­al­ly own when look­ing at buy­ing into…
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Statu­to­ry Duty of Care – Part 4 Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020 – ‘…the risk of harm was fore­see­able… not insignificant…not far-fetched or fanciful’

Jul 17, 2024

On 5 July 2024, His Hon­our Jus­tice Waugh hand­ed down his deci­sion in The Own­ers – Stra­ta Plan 80867 v Da Sil­va…
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Alert | Con­struc­tion indus­try update: When is reme­di­al build­ing work exempt devel­op­ment? 11 July 2023

Jul 11, 2023

The Depart­ment of Plan­ning and Envi­ron­ment has pub­lished a ​‘Reme­di­al Build­ing Work – State Envi­ron­men­tal Plan­ning Pol­i­cy (Exempt and Com­ply­ing…
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NSW Con­struc­tion Update

Mar 13, 2023

Roberts v Good­win Street Devel­op­ments Pty Ltd [2023] NSW­CA 5 In a recent deci­sion hand­ed down by the NSW Court of Appeal it…
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Stra­ta Reme­di­al Update: Emer­gency Reme­di­al Build­ing Works

Mar 1, 2023

The NSW Depart­ment of Cus­tomer Ser­vice has released a Fact Sheet: Emer­gency Reme­di­al Build­ing Work: https://​www​.fair​trad​ing​.nsw​.gov​.au/​t​r​a​d​e​s​-​a​n​d​-​b​u​s​i​n​e​s​s​e​s​/​c​o​n​s​t​r​u​c​t​i​o​n​-​a​n​d​-​t​r​a​d​e​-​e​s​s​e​n​t​i​a​l​s​/​w​o​r​k​i​n​g​-​o​n​-​c​l​a​s​s​-​2​-​b​u​i​l​d​i​n​g​s​/​b​u​i​l​d​i​n​g​-​p​r​a​c​t​i​t​i​o​n​e​r​-​o​b​l​i​g​a​t​i​o​n​s​/​e​m​e​r​g​e​n​c​y​-​r​e​m​e​d​i​a​l​-​b​u​i​l​d​i​n​g​-work This Fact Sheet has been…
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Shift­ing the dial on build­ing defects lia­bil­i­ty – a greater risk for com­pa­ny direc­tors and devel­op­ers under recent leg­isla­tive reform

Feb 10, 2023

Under the Home Build­ing Act 1989, claimants in defec­tive build­ing cas­es against cor­po­rate builders and/​or cor­po­rate devel­op­ers may hit a road­block…
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Reme­di­al Works Are Dif­fer­ent | NSW Con­struc­tion Reform

Jul 25, 2022

The real­i­ty of the NSW Con­struc­tion reform for the reme­di­al industry Reme­di­al is an inte­gral part of the con­struc­tion industry. Twelve months…
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The evo­lu­tion of a legal team, intro­duc­ing Swaab’s team ser­vic­ing the prop­er­ty industry

Jun 17, 2022

The pace of trans­for­ma­tion, increased vol­ume and com­plex­i­ty of projects has con­tin­ued unabat­ed with­in the prop­er­ty sec­tor. As one of…
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Reme­di­al Works in stra­ta schemes – were they near­ly forgotten?

Sep 3, 2021

We are all aware of the push by the NSW Gov­ern­ment to ​‘restore con­sumer con­fi­dence’ in the NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try…
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NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try Shut Down – Par­tial re-open­ing as of 31 July 2021

Aug 2, 2021

On Wednes­day 28 July 2021, the NSW Pre­mier took steps to re-open cer­tain con­struc­tion sites in parts of Greater Syd­ney…
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