PROBUILD CONSTRUCTIONS (AUST) PTY LTD v DDI GROUP PTY LTD

[2018] BLR 415

SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COURT OF APPEAL

Before Beazley, McColl, MacFarlan

Adjudication – Construction contract – Australia – Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) – Set-off for liquidated damages – Entitlement to extension of time – Possible act of prevention – Scope of what was referred to adjudication – Breach of natural justice – Rough justice – Analysis of adjudication submissions on pragmatic non-legalistic basis.