Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (Qld) v Davenport & Anor

[2009] QSC 134

Supreme Court of Queensland

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Catchwords

1. Contracts
2. › Building, engineering and related contracts
3. › Security of payment legislation
4. › Adjudication
5. › Correction of adjudication decisions
6. › Whether proposed correction constituted correction of material miscalculation or change in reasoning methodology
7. › Whether adjudicator acting beyond power under s 28
8. › Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004 (Qld), s 28
1. Administrative Law
2. › Judicial review
3. › Jurisdictional error
4. › Adjudicator proposing to act beyond statutory power
5. › Whether injunctive relief available to restrain anticipated jurisdictional error
6. › Judicial Review Act 1991 (Qld), Pt 5
1. Administrative Law
2. › Judicial review
3. › Availability of review
4. › Adjudication decisions under security of payment legislation
5. › Whether exclusion from Part 3 of Judicial Review Act also excludes Part 5
6. › Judicial Review Act 1991 (Qld), ss 18(2)(b), 43(2), 48
7. › Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004 (Qld), Pt 3 Div 2
1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Injunctions
3. › Permanent injunction
4. › Restraining anticipated jurisdictional error
5. › Whether damages adequate remedy
6. › Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004 (Qld), s 100

Quick Take

An adjudicator's power to correct decisions under s 28 of the BCIPA does not extend to adopting a different methodology or chain of reasoning to reach different results; such a correction constitutes jurisdictional error. Adjudication decisions under the BCIPA remain reviewable under Part 5 of the Judicial Review Act 1991 (Qld) notwithstanding the 2007 amendments excluding them from Part 3. Injunctive relief is available to restrain an adjudicator from making a correction that would exceed the power conferred by s 28.