Press Release – Free Speech Union Because the issues are so important, Professor Philip Joseph, the author of New Zealands leading textbook on Constitutional and Administrative Law, has volunteered to support the Free Speech Unions lead barrister Jack Hodder QC before the Supreme …
Because the issues are so important, Professor Philip Joseph, the author of New Zealand’s leading textbook on Constitutional and Administrative Law, has volunteered to support the Free Speech Union’s lead barrister Jack Hodder QC before the Supreme Court in its appeal relating to the banning of controversial Canadian speakers from Auckland Council-owned venues. The Free Speech Union is heartened by this public-spirited move.
A $220m class action claims cladding was sold without adequate testing.
One of the leaky homes in the Harditex cladding class action lawsuit was atrociously built, and did not even have a code of compliance certificate, James Hardie’s lawyers claimed at the High Court in Auckland. The global building materials manufacturer is defending itself against a $220 million class action claim for compensation by owners of leaky homes clad in Harditex. About 1000 owners of 376 leaky homes blame James Hardie’s Harditex exterior cladding system for the leaks, claiming Harditex was defective, not suitable for New Zealand’s high-rain climate, and not properly tested before being sold.
Leaky homes lawsuit: Top bosses in global company knew of NZ rotten homes problems, homeowners say
18 May, 2021 04:25 AM
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Jack Hodder QC says James Hardie is being singled out and blamed for broad, systemic failures which precipitated the leaky homes scandal. Photo / Dean Purcell
Jack Hodder QC says James Hardie is being singled out and blamed for broad, systemic failures which precipitated the leaky homes scandal. Photo / Dean Purcell
Bosses at global company James Hardie knew their products could face damaging public revelations in New Zealand, a leaky homeowners group lawyer says.
The James Hardie group of companies denies claims which hundreds of homeowners have advanced in a $220 million class action.