Written by Simon Johason – read The Age article here. A government authority “misstated” the findings of an investigation into slab heave that has left thousands of poorly-built homes in Melbourne’s outer suburbs with severe cracking and other defects, officials have been forced to admit. Cracked walls, jammed doors and windows and titling floors from “slab heave” […]
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Legro Lawyers were delighted to represent a client in a Building Litigation case, in which our client was awarded compensation for ‘slab heave’. The following story about this case was published in The Age on 2nd April 2014 (writer Simon Johansen). Australia’s largest home builders are on notice after a Victorian tribunal awarded a property investor nearly
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The recent spate of ‘slab heave’ cases in Victoria have highlighted the need for a review of the domestic building industry, says lawyer Hayden Legro. After representing a client who won a $290,000 slab heave claim against building company Metricon in April this year, currently on appeal to the Supreme Court, Mr Legro said he
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