Perrinepod Pty Ltd v Georgiou Building Pty Ltd

(2011) 43 WAR 319; [2011] WASCA 217

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Catchwords

1. Building and Construction
2. › Security of payment legislation
3. › Adjudication of payment disputes
4. › Review of adjudicator's decisions
5. › Whether SAT review available where adjudicator refuses to dismiss application under s 31(2)(a)
6. › Whether 'decision made under section 31(2)(a)' includes decision not to dismiss
7. › Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA), ss 31(2), 46(1), 46(3)
1. Administrative Law
2. › Jurisdictional facts
3. › Statutory criteria conditioning exercise of power
4. › Whether matters in s 31(2)(a) Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA) are jurisdictional facts
5. › Distinction between narrow and broad senses of jurisdictional fact
6. › Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA), s 31(2)(a)
1. Administrative Law
2. › Privative clauses
3. › Construction of privative clause
4. › Whether s 46(3) excludes judicial review for jurisdictional error
5. › Presumption against ousting court's supervisory jurisdiction
6. › State parliament cannot oust Supreme Court supervisory jurisdiction for jurisdictional error
7. › Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA), s 46(3)
1. Administrative Law
2. › Judicial review
3. › Prerogative writs
4. › Availability of prohibition and certiorari
5. › Whether adjudicator's exercise of powers under s 31(2) amenable to prerogative relief
6. › Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA), ss 31(2), 46(3)

Quick Take

Under s 46(1) of the Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA), SAT review is available only where an adjudicator dismisses an application under s 31(2)(a), not where the adjudicator declines to dismiss and proceeds to determine the application on its merits. A party aggrieved by an adjudicator's failure to dismiss must seek judicial review for jurisdictional error rather than SAT review. Section 46(3) does not exclude judicial review for jurisdictional error.