PHOTO: TIM WIMBORNE James Hardie was the supplier of some forms of cladding that are common on leaky buildings.
Retirement village company Metlifecare has scored a legal victory in its battle to win damages of as much as $200 million from multi-national building products company James Hardie.
Some Metlifecare retirement villages were built using James Hardie cement fibre cladding products Harditex, Monotek and Titan Board, which Metlifecare claims were defective and leaked.
But James Hardie, which is defending the claim, applied to the Supreme Court to have its Irish parent company, and two other overseas James Hardie “holding companies”, excluded from the claim.
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