Building watchdog facing $10m legal claim

Days before Christmas last year, Supreme Court judge Peter Flanagan decided that six of seven conditions placed on a builder by the Queensland Building and Construction Commission were invalid and imposed unlawfully.Flanagan said the QBCC “acted beyond its powers” in imposing restrictions on Groupline Constructions, a Gold Coast family firm that already started work on a luxury apartment block at Coolangatta, 40m from Kirra Beach.

The QBCC was understandably unhappy…



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