Funding has been confirmed for a class action lawsuit against the makers of defective plaster cladding.

New Zealand's biggest leaky building payout points to serious flaws in our system, according to an industry expert.

The 150 owners of the 12-level Nautilus tower in Orewa were awarded the payout in a decision released yesterday by Justice Murray Gilbert.

Owners of Orewa apartment tower the Nautilus have won $25.07 million, the largest amount awarded to leaky building owners in New Zealand.

Many owners of big apartment blocks are going through their second leaky building repair project, after the first fix-up failed.

Repairs have begun to one of Auckland's largest leaky apartment complexes.

Fallout from New Zealand's leaky building disaster continues. The case related to an alleged failure of a cladding system, although the builder defended that.

Facing huge bills to fix their leaky houses, more homeowners have joined the new $100 million-plus leaky home class action.

Gay Johnson spent $600,000 fixing her leaking Castor Bay house so she joined a new $100 million legal action to fight for compensation.

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 lawyer says hundreds of leaky-home owners could seek to overturn rejected compensation bids after a landmark Supreme Court decision.

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.

A man who claims his lawyer friend doubled his bill for help resolving a leaky homes dispute says his memory of what happened was clouded by chemotherapy.

A lawyer is facing a disciplinary tribunal after he charged his golf buddy more than $1 million to help sort out legal problems created by his leaky Remuera home.