The majority of decisions highlight the key considerations regarding the security of payment process across all jurisdictions, including the provision of bank guarantees as security instead of paying monies into court on an application to set aside an adjudicator's determination. Other matters of interest include how the courts will view a builder's duty of care, the duty of landowners protect their own property from the impact of stormwater runoff, and the fatal consequences of attempting to serve documents by hyperlink to cloud based storage systems. We also summarise Western Australia's proposed new security of payment laws in our legislative update.

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