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Peninsula Balmain P/L v Abigroup Contractors P/L [2002] NSWCA 211
CONTRACTS - BUILDING, ENGINEERING AND RELATED CONTRACTS - Australian Standard General Conditions of Contract AS2124-1992 - Position of superintendent - Whether agent of principal - Whether power to extend time continues after termination of contract - Whether builder's entitlement to payment for variation depended on compliance with clause 40.2
TRADE PRACTICES - Misleading conduct - Must be apt to mislead in some non-trivial respect - Non-disclosure by principal of agreement with superintendent - Agreement, on true construction, has no relevant impact on exercise of superintendent's functions - Circumstance that commercial people may think otherwise does not make non-disclosure misleading - Whether misleading conduct either by "doing" or "refraining" - Significance of non-disclosure being "inadvertent".
LEGISLATION CITED: Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) ss.4, 52
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