Mount Albert Borough Council v Johnson

JurisdictionNew Zealand
Date1979
Year1979
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No 2297 v Seasons Park Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 29 Marzo 2005
    ...45 Great reliance was placed by the appellant on the New Zealand Court of Appeal case of Mount Albert Borough Council v Johnson [1979] 2 NZLR 234 (“Mount Albert”). There, a development company had a block of flats erected by a contractor. A subsequent purchaser of one of the flats discovere......
  • Mark Stephen Hotchin v The New Zealand Guardian Trust Company Ltd
    • New Zealand
    • Supreme Court
    • 15 Marzo 2016
    ...Regulations 1992, under the Building (Forms) Regulations 2004, reg 8). 256 See for instance Mt Albert Borough Council v Johnson [1979] 2 NZLR 234 (CA). 257 Birse Construction Ltd v Haiste Ltd [1996] 1 WLR 675 (CA). 258 There was a further claim that Newton had breached a duty of care indep......
  • North Shore City Council v Body Corporate
    • New Zealand
    • Court of Appeal
    • 22 Marzo 2010
    ...McKenzie102Sparham-Souter v Town & Country Development (Essex) Ltd[1976] QB 858 (CA) at 868.103Mount Albert Borough Council v Johnson[1979] 2 NZLR 234 (CA) at 238, 242.104Lester v White[1992] 2 NZLR 483 (HC) at 493.105Commerce Commission v Carter Holt Harvey Ltd[2009] NZCA 40; [2009] 3 NZLR......
  • Angela Mcmanus And Robert Mcmanus Against (first) City Link Development Company Limited; (second) Scott Wilson Scotland Limited; And (third) Lanarkshire Housing Association Limited
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 22 Diciembre 2015
    ...with the Court of Appeal of New Zealand’s view on the duties incumbent on a developer. In Mount Albert Borough Council v Johnson [1979] 2 NZLR 234, the purchaser of a flat had suffered damage due to the substance of a building erected on inadequate foundations. One of the issues was whether......
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  • The Law of Bureaucratic Negligence in South Africa: A Comparative Commonwealth Perspective
    • South Africa
    • Acta Juridica No. , August 2019
    • 15 Agosto 2019
    ...112 DLR (4th) 1.123Bowen v Paramount Builders (Hamilton) Ltd [1975] 2 NZLR 546.124[1972] 1 All ER 462 (CA).125Mount Albert BC v Johnson [1979] 2 NZLR 234; Meates v Attorney General [1983] NZLR308 (CA); Takaro Properties Ltd v Rowling [1986] 1 NZLR 22 (CA); Brown v Heathcote CC137THE LAW OF ......
  • Land Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2005, December 2005
    • 1 Diciembre 2005
    ...engaged to advise on the various technical requirements will only reinforce this conclusion (see Mount Albert Borough Council v Johnson[1979] 2 NZLR 234 at 240). 17.59 In cases where the defence of independent contractor is successfully pleaded by the developer, the management corporation”s......

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