The Queensland Court of Appeal held that consulting engineers who negligently designed foundations for a commercial warehouse did not owe a duty of care in negligence to a subsequent purchaser of the premises for pure economic loss arising from structural defects. The Court maintained the distinction drawn in Fangrove Pty Ltd v Tod Group Holdings between domestic home buyers and commercial purchasers, declining to extend the Bryan v Maloney duty of care to the commercial context. The Court considered whether Perre v Apand supported such an extension and concluded it did not.
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