Piastrino v Seascape Constructions
Supreme Court of Victoria
Delany J
26/04/2022
[2022] VSC 202
Building contracts — Domestic building contracts — Security of Payments — Adjudication determination — Mixed use development — Development for investment purposes — Whether falling within exemption for domestic building contracts — Whether contract a domestic building contract for the carrying out of domestic building work — Whether plaintiffs ‘in the business of building residences’ — Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 (Vic), s 7(2)(b) — Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 (Vic), ss 5(1)(a), 5(1)(e), 6, 12
Words and phrases — ‘domestic building work’ — ‘in the business of building residences’
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