Construction

Two senior barristers went head to head over whether there should be a "staged" trial, potentially speeding up the bid for damages by owners.

It looks like a tidy, solid home, nothing like the patched and decaying monolithic cladding leaky homes dotting Auckland's suburbs.

It was when workers started taking the cladding off Meredith Osmond's Wellington unit that she realised the extent of the damage.

Councils who signed off on leaky buildings could find themselves in the firing line if a planned class action suit goes ahead.

Keith Coffison is at his wits end in a battle with Auckland Council over a leaky home issue - and signing up to a novel legal process for justice.

Litigation has partially succeeded against building materials manufacturer and supplier James Hardie over allegations of weathertightness issues.

Leaky building lawyer and mediator, Adina Thorn, talks to the Panel about why so many builders and dodgey operators are not prosecuted.

The recent discovery that substandard seismic grade steel reinforcing bar has been supplied to the NZ market is no surprise to Adina Thorn.

As many as 90 per cent of standalone leaky homes are likely still rotting, says leaky homes specialist lawyer Tim Rainey.

Opportunist builders, dodgy steel and shonky standards create new building crisis ‘worse than leaky homes’.

More than 100 home-owners have joined a class action against steel building mesh suppliers: Stuff reveals concern about cost-cutting.

An Auckland High Court judge has ruled that 15 more claimants can become part of the $250 million faulty cladding class action.