Robert Riddell

Expertise

Recognition

Robert Riddell is ‘outstanding’ and someone who ‘thinks very commercially’.
The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific: Australia – Construction

Accolades

• The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific – Recommended for Construction – 2018-2019 editions
• Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific: Australia – Recognised Practitioner for Construction – 2019 edition

Recent deals and media coverage

• Piper Alderman snags partner and special counsel from Dentons – Australasian Lawyer, 21 August 2017

Memberships

• Chair, Resolution Institute – NSW Determinative Committee
• Member, Resolution Institute – Determinative Committee (National)
• Member, Master Builders Association of NSW’s Legal and Contracts Committee
• Member Law Society of NSW

Related Insights

• NSW Security of Payment Act Amendments – Loophole closed for unlicensed residential builders
• Submissions Advanced and Reasons Given, Together Again!ㅤ A Civil Aust Pty Ltd v Ceerose Pty Ltd [2024] NSWCA 7
• The purposive approach to payment schedule validity
• Rolling the dice on payment schedules – Is it valid or not?
• Do your standard form contracts fit the new regime?
• A payment claim by another name
• Security of Payment – Service of Notices and Actual Receipt, BCFK Holdings v Rork Projects
• Changes to unfair contract terms: considerations for head-contractors and developers
• Significant reforms proposed for the NSW construction sector
• Issue estoppel decontextualised. The demise of issue estoppel in the context of Security of Payment
• Supreme Court upholds the “contractual bargain” – failed circumvention of alternative dispute resolution process in WestConnex deed
• Liability for Defects when New Builder Takes Over: Lichaa v Boutros [2021] NSWCA 322
• The Risks of Injury, Death and Substantial Financial Penalties: SafeWork NSW Prosecutions for WHS Breaches
• Isn’t it time to update the Australian Standards Contracts?
• The NSW Building Reform Train Steams On
• Varying implications of jurisdictional fact errors in security of payment adjudications
• Contractors on the Front Foot. Owner-Occupiers Now Exposed to Security of Payment Claims
• Head contractors and supporting statements under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW)
• WEBINAR | Lessons learned from COVID-19 and the construction industry pause
• Construction Pause – Do you have an EOT claim?
• Construction Pause – Do you have an ETO claim?
• Construction activity pause and EOTs
• Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2021: Insurance and CPD Requirements
• Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2021 (NSW) – Requirements Specific to Engineers
• Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2021: The classes of registration for design and building practitioners
• Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2021: Transitional Arrangements
• Micro-managing apartment developments in NSW – Design and Building Practitioners work under the microscope
• Your risk allocation just changed (no matter what your contract provides)
• Zombie reference dates and payment claim graveyards
• COVID-19 and construction contracts: Time for urgent contract review
• Significant NSW Security of Payment amendments to apply to contracts entered into on or after 21 October 2019
• The 2018 security of payment amendments arise from the dead!
• New Directors’ and Officers’ exposure to personal liability under Security of Payment Legislation in NSW
• Awkward timing: When not to serve a payment schedule
• Ramping up subcontractor protection – Retention and now ‘Deemed’ Statutory Trusts
• New South Wales Returns Fire in the Security of Payment Wars
• Tripartite subcontracts: The new road block to subcontractor cash-flow?
• Security of Payment and Factoring. Not so Fast!
• One provision to void them all: The shadow life of section 34

Related News

• The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Australia, 2019 edition
• The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: Australia, 2018 edition