Dualcorp Pty Ltd v Remo Constructions Pty Ltd [2009] NSWCA 69

Reported Decision: 74 NSWLR 190

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: Dualcorp Pty Ltd v Remo Constructions Pty Ltd [2009] NSWCA 69

HEARING DATE(S): 10 March 2009

JUDGMENT DATE: 15 April 2009

JUDGMENT OF: Allsop P at 1; Macfarlan JA at 17; Handley AJA at 76

(a) Leave to appeal granted. DECISION: (b) Appeal dismissed. (c) The applicant/appellant to pay the respondent's costs of the leave application and of the appeal.

CATCHWORDS: CONTRACTS - Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 - progress claim for amounts the subject of a previous claim - adjudicator's determination that most of previous claim not maintainable - whether further claim precluded by provisions of the Act or principles of estoppel - ESTOPPEL - issue estoppel - adjudication under Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999

LEGISLATION CITED: Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1981 (WA)

CATEGORY: Principal judgment

Bitannia Pty Ltd v Parkline Constructions Pty Ltd (2006) 67 NSWLR 9 Batistatos v Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales [2006] HCA 27; (2006) 226 CLR 256 D'Orta-Ekenaike v Victoria Legal Aid [2005] HCA 12; (2005) 223 CLR 1 CASES CITED: John Goss Projects v Leighton Contractors & Anor [2006] NSWSC 798 Kuligowski v Metrobus [2004] HCA 34; (2004-2005) 220 CLR 363 Rothnere v Quasar & Ors [2004] NSWSC 1151 Walton v Gardiner [1993] HCA 77; (1992-3) 177 CLR 393

TEXTS CITED: Spencer Bower, Turner and Handley, Res Judicata, 3rd ed (1996) Butterworths