Heath v Auckland Council [2012] NZWHT Auckland 20 [pdf, 193 KB]
...consider the circumstances of a turn key vendor who did not personally control the building work. [73] The second High Court decision to consider a clause similar to the one before the Tribunal in this claim is Aldridge v Boe12 which was an appeal from a decision of this Tribunal. Like Ford v Ryan this case concerned a house that had never achieved a code compliance certificate. Unlike Ford v Ryan the purchasers in Aldridge were aware of this when they purchased the house...