Practical completion of works is often the trigger for other events, such as the grant of a lease. In that scenario, a landlord carries out works in accordance with a planning permission and ...

The New South Wales Court of Appeal has recently considered the concept of "practical completion" in Abergeldie Contractors Pty Ltd v Fairfield City Council [2017] NSWCA 113. The decision is likely to ...

Many a construction dispute turns on defects. A significant subset of those turn on whether the existence of defects prevents practical completion from taking place. It’s not surprising that these ...

Question: What does ‘practical completion’ mean? Does it mean that there must be zero defects in a new building before a certificate of practical completion should be issued?

Even when a ‘final and binding’ certificate of completion is issued, there may be room for the parties to challenge the validity of the decision ‘Practical completion is perhaps easier to recognise ...