I'm a home owner looking for advice on my obligations in relation to a retaining wall matter or dispute.
We are a law firm dedicated to providing advice in relation to retaining walls in Queensland.
We accept retainers from agents, builders, homeowners and other law firms seeking advice on retaining wall issues.
No more waiting weeks (if not months) for your usual solicitor to provide you with advice.
No more awkward conversations where your usual solicitor has to qualify their opinions by telling you “I’ll have to check the law, but…”
Queensland Retaining Wall Lawyers specialise in assisting homeowners in resolving neighbour conflicts associated with retaining wall disputes, ensuring that property disputes are expertly and legally addressed.
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Real Homeowners' Experiences
Recent Cases
-advised an owner on their obligations in relation to a failing retaining wall
-drafted an agreement to give legal effect and consequence to the agreement reached between two neighbours’ obligations in relation to a retaining wall which was in need of repair and maintenance
-drafted, negotiated, arranged execution of (and then unfortunately enforced) an access agreement between two neighbours
-advised a body corporate committee on their obligations in relation to a retaining wall
-drafted an agreement for a property owner who had agreed with their neighbour that they would be responsible for 100% of the cost of remedial works to a retaining wall at a particular time but who wished to ensure that paying now wouldn’t mean paying forever (i.e. accepting indefinite liability)
-advised a property owner on whether an agreement entered into between two neighbours regarding a retaining wall was transferrable (and needed to be disclosed) to prospective purchasers of their land
-advised the shareholders of a corporate landowner, who had recently brought on new investors (shareholders) in the company, as to whether the existence of a retaining wall dispute was a matter that ought to have been disclosed to the new investors before they purchased shares in the corporate landowner
-advised a body corporate committee as to how the cost of remedying a failing retaining wall (or replacing it) should be paid by lot owners
-advised a property owner who had agreed to apportion liability in a certain way, but who remained in dispute with their neighbour as to the materials and design of a retaining wall
-litigated a breach of an access agreement between neighbours after machines brought onto one of the parties land by a builder had caused significant damage to terrain and fixtures
-litigated a dispute between neighbouring body corporates in relation to the extent to which the parties should share the cost of replacing a retaining wall
-negotiated with a builder who had built a defective wall without structural engineering, in circumstances where the wall
-negotiated with a neighbour who was refusing to allow their neighbour’s building contractors to enter the neighbour’s land to inspect a retaining wall (for the purposes of quoting to remedy the failing wall)
-negotiated with a neighbour who was refusing to allow their neighbour’s builder, tradesperson and contractors to traverse their land to remedy a failing retaining wall
-negotiated with a neighbour who had (years ago) built a defective retaining wall near the boundary which was now collapsing
-advised a property owner whose tenants had damaged a retaining wall
-advised a property owner whose neighbour had, over many years of watering a substantial garden at the base of a retaining wall, caused timber sleepers in a retaining wall to rot and become structurally unsound
-litigated a dispute as to the extent to which a large group of neighbours should share the cost of remedying a retaining wall that was in need of repair
-advised a property owner on their rights as against an insurer who refused to pay the cost of remedying a retaining wall which had reached it’s natural end of life sooner than anticipated owing to a significant but seasonal rain and flooding event
-compelled a neighbour to attend and participate meaningfully in alternative dispute resolution where a negotiated outcome was reached in relation to repairing a retaining wall that was in need of minor repairs (where the neighbour originally disagreed it needed repair)
-assisted a property owner whose neighbour had inadvertently undermined the structural footers of a retaining wall (for which the client was singularly responsible) to seek compensation
-advised a property owner whose neighbour was attempting to apportion liability unreasonably
-negotiated (unsuccessfully, despite mediation) then litigated (successfully) a dispute between a large group of neighbours in relation to responsibility for a failing retaining wall, of varying height, which crossed 5 distinct neighbours boundaries in several places, which was not built perpendicular to any boundary but rather ‘criss-crossed’ multiple boundaries multiple times
In order to provide you with the best service, we abide the following maxims:
We will listen carefully to understand what you want to achieve.
The advice we provide will be as short, simple and useable as it can safely be. We will communicate in plain English; we won’t speak to you in “Legalese”.
For advice and documents, we can almost always provide a fixed or capped cost so you don’t take price risk. We can do this because our long experience in this niche field enables us to accurately predict the time we’re likely to spend on those tasks.
We're not in this for our egos. We're in it for a front row seat to witness your success.
All of the options available to you in any given situation will be fully explained. You will always understand the full consequences of the decisions you are thinking of making.
Where the task you’re asking us to complete involves variables that impact the time we’re likely to spend working with you (such as court proceedings), we'll map out the process and give you a range of costs so you know what to expect and aren’t writing a blank cheque.
Our lawyers work as a team.
We only do what we're good at. You can be confident that we know what we're doing. Unlike other firms, we won't pass on the cost of our learning via inflated ‘research’ charges.
We are committed to your education and will pass on as much knowledge as we can, so you can make your own informed decisions. We want to make you truly independent.
