Aitchison Reid Building & Construction Lawyers

19/12/2025

If you are looking for a home building contract review, or home renovation contract review, we offer three options.

Our options are listed in our "Products" section above, or see our product selection table on our website:

We carry out Home Building Contract Reviews / Domestic Building Contract Reviews for Queensland Homeowners and Home Investors, delivered by your Queensland professionals, Aitchison Reid Building and Construction Lawyers. HIA contract reviews. QBCC contract reviews. Master Builders contract reviews.

19/12/2025

We're working through the Christmas/New Year period, with just a couple of days off in between.

You'll be able to book a phone meeting on a booking link near the bottom of our homepage in the "Contact Us" section: https://www.arbuildinglaw.com.au/

We won't be working on 25 and 26 December 2025, 1 and 2 January 2026.

27/07/2025

It’s so tempting to have a look at what the contractor is doing, when no one is there, isn’t it?

I get that.

BUT if you go on site during the work, you most likely in breach your contract with the contractor.

Even if you have verbal consent from the contractor that it is okay to go on site – don’t.

When things go wrong, and believe me, they often do, it is incredibly difficult to prove verbal consent.

But even more importantly, the whole reason you should not be able to go on to the site without consent is because building is inherently risky and unsafe. Obtaining the builder’s consent in writing is actually to protect you and whoever tags along with you.

So be safe and get written consent from the builder, so you can go on site when it is safe and supervised.

Hi, I’m Fionna Reid and I’ve been a construction lawyer for over 20 years and have run my own construction law practice for over 12 years. I get to talk with lots of unfortunate homeowners who wish they had obtained written consent before going on site.

So by sharing a little bit of information, I’m hoping to make our construction industry a better place.

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01/02/2025

Interesting.

With artificial intelligence set to be restricted in New South Wales' legal system from Monday, the state's Chief Justice has flagged his concerns over the technology.

20/09/2023

Recently, we were asked by a TradeBox customer, whether you can claim the statutory home warranty insurance on top of the deposit or whether it was included in the deposit (in QLD).

We thought that was a great question, so we handed it off to Aitchison Reid Building & Construction Lawyers and this is the guidance response they provided:

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If you are claiming statutory home warranty insurance, the deposit needs to include the insurance. Section 33, Schedule 1B, QBCC Act, defines the deposit as including:

"any payment for domestic building work demanded or received by the building contractor prior to the contracted services commencing at the building site, including, for example, any insurance premium paid under part 5."
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