A High Court stoush between a lawyer suing her former partners for establishing a new firm without her has settled.

Gardens School in Manurewa was one of the biggest casualties of the leaky building crisis and has been leaking ever since it was built in the late 1990s.

A big court case over one of Auckland's most ill-fated apartment tower developments is set down to be heard early next year.

A dispute over building defects at one of Auckland's biggest shopping malls was on the electronic online High Court list last Thursday.

A building crisis in Canterbury could be as widespread as the leaky home issue, lawyers say.

About 100 leaky building victims whose claims were rejected because they were beyond a 10-year threshold may now get help to fix their homes.

An Auckland couple who own a $2m leaky home have an “arguable case” in their lawsuit against the pair that sold them the property, a High Court judge says.

The Supreme Court's landmark decision clarifying when home owners can make claims about leaky buildings will only affect a small number of people, government officials say.

A couple who paid $913,000 for a leaky Meadowbank house fought for four years to get it reclad after an earlier repair continued to let water into the home.

Kevin Pugh has twice fought off his neighbours in Herne Bay's luxury Shangri La tower, winning lengthy litigation over the building's repair.

A lawyer who grossly overcharged his former golfing buddy has been struck off the Law Society's register, and ordered to repay almost $500,000 in overcharged fees.

The horrendous cost of repairing a leaky Auckland school is changing the traditional Government view that the cheapest tender is the best tender.

Auckland Council paid $22.7 million to leaky building lawyers and experts in the past two years, drawing fire from one councillor for what he called a huge waste.

The owners of properties in Auckland's leaky Chancery shopping complex have won $3.4 million for repairs, now about halfway through.

The Inland Revenue is withholding GST refunds from body corporates with leaky buildings, even though it is pretty sure they are entitled to claim them.

Each owner of leak-struck twin tower high-rise Hobson Gardens faces paying $50,000 to $75,000 to get their unit fixed after the collapse of Mainzeal Property & Construction.

In a test case that could affect thousands of leaky home owners, an Auckland couple have been granted leave for a Supreme Court appeal against a Weathertight Homes Tribunal decision.

The Ministry of Education has begun legal action against major building product companies over its huge repair bill for leaky school buildings.

Leaky home owners in Tauranga face paying more than $25 million to weatherproof their homes.

A North Shore couple with a Down syndrome daughter say they are under severe stress and unable to repair leaky townhouses due to a three-year battle to get money.

A wealthy couple who bought a leaky home have failed in a $2 million court case against the Auckland Council.