Construction litigation specialist Adina Thorn said today the UK’s biggest litigation funder had agreed in principle to back a New Zealand class action against manufacturers of defective plaster cladding.
Leaky buildings
Judge orders Symphony Properties to pay liquidated defendants’ costs in Farnham Terraces case
Published 1 March 2011 Justice Graham Lang has ordered Symphony Properties Ltd (Colin Reynolds) to pay the court costs accrued by 2 related companies, now in liquidation, in their fight against liability in the Farnham Terraces leaky homes case. In a judgment issued last Friday, Justice Lang ordered Symphony Properties to pay the $65,430 in […]
Farnham Terraces body corporate can continue case against Symphony companies in liquidation
Published 17 November 2010 The body corporate of the Farnham Terraces apartments conversion in Parnell has won court approval to continue a leaky-building claim against the developers, 2 of which were placed in voluntary liquidation on 28 September. Ordinarily an insolvent liquidation would remove them from the case. However, Justice Graham Lang gave body corporate […]
Farnham Terraces leaky-building case off to November
Published 11 October 2010 The Farnham Terraces leaky buildings court case was put off for 5 weeks today to give the liquidator of the 2 Symphony (now Pakenham) Group companies involved time to document his opposition to the case continuing against companies in liquidation. The case had been set down for 10 weeks, starting before […]
Reynolds puts Pakenham (ex-Symphony) & Waimarie into liquidation ahead of Farnham Terraces cases
Published 4 October 2010 Longtime property developer Colin Reynolds put his 2 main companies, Pakenham Group Ltd (ex-Symphony Group Ltd) & Waimarie Management Ltd, into voluntary liquidation last Tuesday, 28 September, short-circuiting 2 court actions against them over the Farnham Terraces apartments conversion in Parnell. Owners of the Farnham Terraces apartments had applied to the […]
Symphony companies may walk from $13-19 million leaky building case after losing strikeout applications
Published 12 February 2010 3 insolvent shell companies in the Symphony property development group were in the High Court on Wednesday trying to strike out a 9-month-old order for them to pay just over $13,400 in costs from an unsuccessful attempt to escape a leaky-building case. The substantive case – over the Farnham Terraces […]
