Dominion Constructors and Defects: $500,000 in Legal Fees Tells Its Own Story

I read the NZ Herald story on Dominion Constructors and two things stood out immediately.

First, Dominion Constructors were putting the defects to rights. That is good. But the second thing was the one that stayed with me: Mr John Harman had to spend $500,000 in legal fees to get there. That tells another story entirely.

I did a bit of a Google search to look behind the construction company and found a pattern: safety violations involving serious harm, defects at K-Mart in Queenstown, issues at the St Mark’s apartments, and references in media to multiple other problems.

So how do we stop this happening to the next client, particularly less experienced developers who may not know what they are walking into?

Tell the stories. Make them easy to find.

If the information is out there and accessible, developers can do their due diligence before signing a contract rather than after spending half a million dollars trying to enforce one.

It is worth watching this: https://lnkd.in/e3YY9Gvg