Watpac Construction (Qld) Pty Ltd v KLM Group Ltd & Ors [2013] QSC 236

Contracts – Building, Engineering and related Contracts – Remuneration – Statutory Regulations of Entitlement to and recovery of progress Payments – Adjudication of Payment Claims – where respondent and applicant entered into a contract for certain construction works – where respondent made payment claim pursuant the Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004 (Qld) – where the payment claim was referred to adjudication – where adjudicator ordered applicant to pay respondent – where applicant seeks judicial review of adjudicator’s decision on a number of grounds – where applicant contends adjudicator’s decision is affected by jurisdictional errors by misinterpreting the contract – whether a misinterpretation of the contract amounts to a jurisdictional error

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