Hey All,
Does anyone know much about this area of law? Looking for a bit of advice as I posted a while back (case dragged on for ages). We have a commercial shopfront in inner Sydney that was leased to a florist, the florist got in her own electrician (her brother in law apparently) to do their own electrical works without notifying the agent nor myself or my husband.
Low and behold, they racked up nearly $35K of electrical costs and tried to frame us for doing the deal. We never met up with his electrician and at all and am now sued for "unjust enrichment", they have fabricated a story in their particulars that we met them up and "approved" for all the works.
I'm not sure if this is a godsend, but through the process and via their claims, we had received a alleged job report (prepared by the plaintiff themselves) which contains the details clearly that states the florist herself called the plaintiff to arrange for electrical works.
Having looked up on the law of unjust enrichment in Australia, it appears to be a relatively new concept and what we're concerned is the rather "easy" steps the plaintiff needs to go through in order to win.
Thanks.
Regards,
Cecilia.
Does anyone know much about this area of law? Looking for a bit of advice as I posted a while back (case dragged on for ages). We have a commercial shopfront in inner Sydney that was leased to a florist, the florist got in her own electrician (her brother in law apparently) to do their own electrical works without notifying the agent nor myself or my husband.
Low and behold, they racked up nearly $35K of electrical costs and tried to frame us for doing the deal. We never met up with his electrician and at all and am now sued for "unjust enrichment", they have fabricated a story in their particulars that we met them up and "approved" for all the works.
I'm not sure if this is a godsend, but through the process and via their claims, we had received a alleged job report (prepared by the plaintiff themselves) which contains the details clearly that states the florist herself called the plaintiff to arrange for electrical works.
Having looked up on the law of unjust enrichment in Australia, it appears to be a relatively new concept and what we're concerned is the rather "easy" steps the plaintiff needs to go through in order to win.
Thanks.
Regards,
Cecilia.