Owners Corporation Strata Plan 64487 v Suncorp Metway Insurance Limited [2007] NSWSC 1165

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Owners Corporation Strata Plan 64487 v Suncorp Metway Insurance Limited [2007] NSWSC 1165

HEARING DATE(S) : 2-3 October 2007

JUDGMENT DATE : 31 October 2007

JURISDICTION : Equity Division Technology & Construction List

JUDGMENT OF : Bergin J

DECISION : Insurance Policy responds to plaintiffs' claims.

CATCHWORDS : [HOME BUILDING ACT] - Whether definition of "residential building work" in Home Building Act 1989 applicable to Insurance Policy provided by defendant under that Act - [SEPARATE QUESTIONS] - As to identity of person who did "residential building work" and gave warranties under the Act - As to whether the Policy responds to plaintiffs' claims.

Home Building Act 1989 LEGISLATION CITED : Home Building Amendment Act 2000 Home Building Regulation 1997

Clutterbuck v Curry (1885) 11 VLR 810 CASES CITED : Dillon v Gange (1941) 64 CLR 253 HIH Casualty and General Insurance Limited v Jones [2000] NSWSC 359 McLean Bros and Rigg Limited v Grice (1906) 4 CLR 835

Owners Corporation Strata Plan 64487 - first plaintiff Wai Yee Lee & Peter Tsz Pinn Li - second plaintiffs Paula Mary McCann - third plaintiff Chien-Yang Tai, Mei-Tso Tai Lai & Jung-Hui Tai - fourth plaintiffs JB Steedman & DM Steedman - fifth plaintiffs A Simms & K Simms - sixth plaintiffs NW Goodall & LJ Goodall - seventh plaintiffs N Mortimer & M Mortimer - eighth plaintiffs PARTIES : EJ Walter - ninth plaintiff BJ Nichols - tenth plaintiff D Wybrow & LE Wearne - eleventh plaintiffs WH Barber - twelfth plaintiff M Thompson - thirteenth plaintiff TA Clarke & KM Clarke - fourteenth plaintiffs Yun-Fu Tsui & Nan-Ping Hsu - fifteenth plaintiffs B Norton - sixteenth plaintiff Terence Peter Compton - seventeenth plaintiff Suncorp Metway Insurance Limited - defendant