Construction & Real Estate

Dropboxes, Links and Attachments: the pitfalls of Electronic Service of Documents

Contact: John Grant, Special Counsel; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia)

Conveyor & General Engineering Pty Ltd v. Basetec Services Pty Ltd & Anor [2014] QSC 30

Conveyor & General Engineering Pty Ltd (CGE) challenged an adjudication decision that required it to pay $121,472.02 to Basetec Services Pty Ltd (Basetec). 

 

CGE asserted in the Queensland Supreme Court that:

  • The adjudication application was not duly served upon it, so that the adjudicator had no jurisdiction; and consequently that
  • The adjudicator denied procedural fairness to it, by refusing to permit it to make certain submissions about the merits of the claim. 

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