Lacrosse judgment summary

In brief - final orders have now been made in the closely followed Lacrosse litigation, the first case to go through the courts system to examine the liability for buildings which have been constructed using aluminium composite panels (ACPs) on a building's façade.

In addition to the well publicised make-good costs in the amount of $5.7m awarded for reinstating the building after the fire, on 1 April 2019 the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal ordered the further amount of just under $7m to be paid for the costs of bringing the building into compliance, various other heads of claimed loss and interest.

These amounts are ultimately payable by the design consultants in the same proportion as the first tranche of damages orders and brings the amount awarded to $12,747,929 plus costs.