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Plaintiff argued JH s conduct was ‘well below that to be expected of a reasonable manufacturer’.
A class-action lawsuit against fibre cement cladding manufacturer James Hardie alleges the company knowingly sold defective cladding used to build thousands of homes for nearly 10 years.
The case is being heard at the Wellington High Court before Justice Simon France over the next 16 weeks with opening promises from counsel to be “tedious in parts”.
Two groups of plaintiffs on two claims were spearheaded by Katrina Fowler who found significant weathertightness issues, toxic mould, and decayed timber framing in her James Hardie-clad property and Tracey Cridge and Mark Unwin, who dealt directly with the manufacturer and recorded repairs of $584,000 stemming