The Auckland High Court delivered an interim decision where the body corporate and a number of individual proprietors and lessees of units at Sunset Terraces sued the Council, developers and the designer in negligence and sought substantial damages. They were successful against the Council and the developers, but all their claims against the designer failed.
Kevin Kilgour has been appointed as a new Member of the Weathertight Homes Tribunal and will be based in Auckland. Kevin Kilgour will join the current Members of the Tribunal in determining issues regarding leaky homes.
This section of the site contains copies (in PDF format) of all the decisions that have been made by adjudication of leaky home claims since the first Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act (2002) came into force. Those dated before 2 April 2007 (when the Tribunal was established under the WHRS Act 2006) were made by adjudicators in the Weathertight Homes Resolution Service at Department of Building and Housing.
The decisions are listed under the year in which they were made, (in a separate page for each year), and titled with the name of the claimant and the first respondent. To select a year page, click on the link in the left-hand navigation menu. (Note that any decisions that are under appeal will be marked with the words 'Under Appeal' beside the claim title.)