From the bid to the final account, your Construction Business needs an expert Construction Lawyer who has worked inside the Construction Industry, not just read about it.
Rachelle Hare uses her 25+ years of Construction Industry experience to advise on Project Delivery Methods, review contracts and internal templates, draft subcontracts, support live Projects, manage claims, recover payments and handle disputes before they become formal proceedings.
Construction time bars run from the date of the event, not the date you noticed.
Find the issue closest to what your business is dealing with today and move straight to where Rachelle can help.
Construction Law work for Brisbane construction businesses runs from the day the tender is issued through to the final account, and continues as long as the business holds contracts in market.
The five stages below show where Blaze Business & Legal supports your business across the lifecycle.
Reviewing the Head Contract or subcontract before tender. Statement of Departures drafted in the Principal’s format. Risk Analysis. Project Delivery Method selection. Bid risk and tender strategy. Joint venture and Teaming Agreement drafting. Pricing risk advice that feeds into the bid.
Drafting Head Contracts where the business is the Principal or upstream party. Drafting subcontract suites that work back-to-back with the Head Contract. Drafting supply agreements and consultant appointments. Insurance and indemnity review. Performance security and retention structure advice.
Live contract administration support. Notices, directions and correspondence strategy. Variation claims and assessments. Extension of Time claims. Latent conditions advice. Rise and fall clause administration. Payment claims and payment schedule strategy under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017. Project Trust Account compliance.
Practical Completion and Defects Liability advice. Final account negotiations. Retention release and security recovery. Performance security disputes. Disputes prevented and managed before they become formal proceedings.
External General Counsel on a monthly retainer. External Commercial Manager on a monthly retainer. QBCC licensing and Minimum Financial Requirements compliance under the MFR Regulation 2018. Strategic advice on entering new Project types, new contract types, new jurisdictions. Brisbane 2032 readiness and Tier 3 to Tier 2 stepping-up advice.
A Construction Contract sets out what your Project is worth, where the risk sits and what happens when something goes wrong.
By the time a payment claim comes back at zero, a variation is rejected, or a Head Contract arrives with three Business Days to review, you need a Construction Lawyer who understands your industry from the inside.
Brisbane construction businesses face the same legal pressure points across every Project: contracts that move risk down the chain, time bars that close before they are noticed, payment schedules that come back at zero, variation claims rejected on technical grounds, indemnities that pass risk down the chain beyond the Contractor’s responsibility, and disputes that escalate before the commercial relationship can be saved.
An expert front-end Construction Lawyer who works at the contract, the Project, the payment and the claim before they become a formal proceeding gives your business the chance to manage these issues while the entitlements are still open.
The Head Contract or Principal-issued contract has arrived with a thick Special Conditions schedule. The bid team needs to understand what is being imposed, what should be qualified, and what should be priced into the tender before submission.
My tender is due soon. Request a fixed-price quote.A direction has been issued, a delay event has occurred, or a Principal-caused issue has surfaced on a live Project. The contract requires notice within a tight window. Once that window closes, the entitlement is gone, regardless of whether the underlying claim was valid.
A Head Contractor has refused to pay a Subcontractor’s claim on the basis that the Principal has not yet paid. Pay-when-paid clauses are void in Queensland under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017. The Subcontractor’s right to claim and recover payment runs regardless.
My payment claim came back at zero. Call Rachelle now.The General Conditions look familiar. The Special Conditions move significant risk onto your business: time bars compressed, indemnities expanded, design risk transferred, Liquidated Damages set high, payment regimes weighted against the Contractor. No-one internally has the experience to know what is industry-standard and what is being imposed.
Extra work was directed and done. The variation claim has been refused on the basis that the notice was out of time, the supporting documentation was not in the required form, or the work fell within the original scope. The starting point is the notice that was served.
The Project is behind schedule. The Extension of Time claim has been submitted or is being prepared. The Principal has put the Contractor on notice that Liquidated Damages will run from the contractual Date for Completion. The exposure depends on how the delay events have been documented.
Liquidated Damages are being threatened. Call Rachelle now.A payment is due. The Principal or Head Contractor has applied set-off against an alleged backcharge, defect cost, or claim under another part of the contract. Retention is being held without a clear release date. Both have contractual mechanisms; neither is automatic.
The Contractor’s indemnity to the Principal extends beyond what the Contractor is responsible for. Consequential loss has not been excluded. The insurance position does not match the contractual risk. The exposure is real and it sits on the balance sheet from the moment the contract is signed.
The Head Contract carries specific obligations on payment, notices, time bars, defects and termination. The subcontract suite has to mirror those obligations down the chain so the Head Contractor is not exposed to risk that should sit with the Subcontractor.
My head contract is signed and I need subcontracts. Request a quote.A licence category mismatch, a Minimum Financial Requirements issue under the MFR Regulation 2018, or a nominee supervisor concern can affect your right to be paid on a live Project. The compliance issue and the contract issue have to be addressed at the same time.
Construction Lawyers in Australia fall into two practical groups. Knowing which one to call depends on where your matter sits today.
A front-end Construction Lawyer does the work before a matter becomes a formal proceeding: drafting and reviewing contracts, supporting live Projects, preparing and managing payment claims under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017, positioning variation and Extension of Time claims, and resolving disputes through commercial negotiation. The aim is to keep the commercial leverage in the Contractor’s hands while the entitlements are still open.
A specialist construction litigator does the work once formal proceedings are unavoidable: drafting pleadings, running matters through the Supreme Court of Queensland, QCAT, arbitration and on appeal. The skill set is courtroom advocacy and managing a litigated case through the rules of court.
Rachelle Hare is a front-end Construction Lawyer. Where a matter has to proceed to formal litigation, Blaze Business & Legal works alongside specialist construction litigators. Rachelle continues to manage the contractual and commercial dimensions throughout while the litigators run the proceedings.
If your contract has not yet been signed, your variation is being prepared, your payment claim is in time, or your dispute has not yet crystallised, call a front-end Construction Lawyer first. The commercial leverage to fix the matter is highest before pleadings are drafted.
Rachelle provides commercial and legal services from before you bid through to final account and beyond.
Most of the value is delivered before problems become expensive, which is why front-end Construction Lawyer work matters more than litigation in the great majority of construction matters.
Find the area that fits your business and see what Rachelle does in that space.
Call Rachelle directly, or send a message and she will respond personally. Every Construction Law engagement at Blaze Business & Legal starts with a fixed-price quote before any work begins.
Most Construction Lawyers in Australia have only ever worked inside law firms.
They have read the cases, they know the legislation, and they can tell you what the law says about a clause.
What most of them have not done is sit inside a contractor’s business, manage a Project, prepare a variation claim, negotiate a final account with a Principal’s Quantity Surveyor, or understand why a Project Manager makes the decisions they make under commercial pressure.
Rachelle Hare has done all of those things.
“Litigators are Construction Lawyers too. The difference is when in the matter you call us. I work at the front end, the contract before you sign it, the variation before the rejection becomes a dispute, the payment claim while the BIFA window is still open. By the time a matter is in court, the commercial leverage to fix it has usually gone.”
Rachelle HareRachelle has held senior legal and commercial roles inside some of Australia’s largest construction businesses: Acting General Counsel at Thiess, Senior Legal Counsel at Laing O’Rourke and Acciona, and senior roles at UGL, Defence Housing Australia and Golding across defence, government infrastructure and civil construction.
That breadth means Rachelle has reviewed contracts from the Contractor’s side, the Principal’s side and the government’s side.
When she reviews a Construction Contract for your business, she knows what the other party intended when they drafted it, where they will negotiate and where they will not.
Alongside the legal roles, Rachelle spent six years full-time as a Senior Commercial Manager on major Defence ICT Projects and nationally significant infrastructure and ICT Projects across Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
She prepared variation claims, managed Extension of Time submissions, dealt with the Principal’s representatives and negotiated final accounts from inside the Contractor’s commercial team.
Very few Construction Lawyers in Australia have that breadth of direct, inside experience across both legal and commercial management roles on major Projects.
Rachelle is your direct contact from the first conversation to the last.
At most law firms a partner takes the initial call and juniors do the work, often without keeping the client informed about who is doing what.
At Blaze Business & Legal, Rachelle is always the person you speak to and the person doing the work.
Blaze Business & Legal combines Construction Law with commercial advisory across one practice.
When a contract issue affects cash flow, or a compliance gap affects payment rights, both dimensions are addressed together.
If your business has an internal lawyer but needs a senior Commercial Adviser, Rachelle can focus on the commercial dimension. A Commercial Review is available as a separately quoted add-on alongside any Legal Review.
“I have sat on the Principal’s side, the Head Contractor’s side and the Subcontractor’s side. I have drafted the contract that landed on a Contractor’s desk with three Business Days to review. When I review a contract for a Brisbane construction business now, I know what the other side intended, where they will negotiate and where they will not.”
Rachelle HareEvery Construction Law engagement at Blaze Business & Legal starts with a fixed-price quote.
After a short conversation about what your business needs, Rachelle reviews the documents at a high level and provides a fixed price for the specific work before anything begins.
For smaller construction businesses, the fixed price is calculated on a lower hourly rate than for larger businesses. The same quality of commercial and legal services is delivered. The price reflects the scale of the business so you can budget with confidence.
A Commercial Review is available as a separately quoted add-on alongside any Legal Review, where the work draws on Rachelle’s six years as a Senior Commercial Manager and her inside Tier 1 contractor experience to look at the contract through a commercial lens.
The fixed-price quote is provided before any work starts. Rachelle waits for your written acceptance before beginning the engagement.
The Disclosure Notice and Costs Agreement set out the scope, fees and deliverables. If the scope changes because new issues emerge, Rachelle raises it before doing the additional work.
A Subcontractor running $6M in revenue needs the same quality of Construction Law services as a Head Contractor running $60M. The cost is calculated to match the scale of the business.
A Commercial Review can be added to any Legal Review. It is separately quoted and priced on the scope of the contract being reviewed.
Blaze Business & Legal acts for construction businesses across the Construction Industry in Brisbane, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and across Australia.
Strongest fit is construction businesses turning over $5M to $200M whose business depends on building things, delivering Projects and getting paid for them.
Building contractors delivering commercial fit-out, mid-rise and high-rise buildings, retail, hospitality and industrial work across Brisbane and South East Queensland. Head Contracts under AS4000, AS4000:2025, AS4902 and bespoke developer forms, with subcontract suites running underneath.
Construction Law work covers contract review and drafting, variation and Extension of Time positioning, payment claims under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017, defects and Practical Completion management, and final account strategy.
Construction Lawyer for Commercial Builders Brisbane →Residential builders and residential developers delivering townhouses, multi-residential and house and land Projects across Queensland.
Construction Law services cover review and drafting of Head Contracts and template Domestic Building Contracts, advice on QBCC licensing in the correct category, Minimum Financial Requirements compliance under the MFR Regulation 2018, subcontract suites, defects, and disputes with homeowners or upstream developers.
Construction Lawyer for Residential Builders Brisbane →Subcontractors and specialist trade contractors working under back-to-back subcontracts with time bars, pay-when-paid clauses (which are void in Queensland under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017) and indemnities that frequently favour the Head Contractor.
Construction Law work covers subcontract review, payment claims and adjudication, variation strategy and managing risk on larger Projects when stepping up to bigger work.
Construction Lawyer for Subcontractors Brisbane →Civil and infrastructure contractors delivering government and private infrastructure across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and beyond. Roads and transport, water and wastewater, utilities, mining services civil work and resources civil work.
Project Trust Account obligations, Queensland Procurement Policy 2026 requirements and environmental compliance add layers of legal obligation that begin before works commence and run through to final account.
Construction Lawyer for Civil and Infrastructure Brisbane →Suppliers providing materials, plant, equipment, prefabricated components and supply-and-install services into Brisbane and Queensland Projects. Supplier contracts carry different commercial profiles from Head Contracts and subcontracts: payment terms, retention of title, delivery risk, material warranties, defects obligations and supply guarantees.
Construction Law work covers review and drafting of supply agreements, supply-and-install contracts, payment recovery under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017 where applicable, and managing disputes over rejected materials, delivery delays and defect allegations.
Construction Lawyer for Suppliers Brisbane →Commercial Managers and Contracts Administrators inside Head Contractor and Subcontractor businesses dealing with live Project issues that need commercial and legal input now.
Rachelle works directly with Commercial Managers on notice obligations, variation positioning, payment strategy and Extension of Time claims. You do not need to be the business owner to engage Blaze Business & Legal.
How a front-end Construction Lawyer review combined with a separately quoted Commercial Review changed the commercial outcome for a Brisbane Head Contractor on a Design and Construct Project.
A Brisbane Head Contractor came to me before signing a Design and Construct Head Contract on a major commercial Project worth around $42M. The Principal had issued a heavily amended AS4902, with a thick Special Conditions schedule that the Contractor’s internal team had reviewed and broadly accepted. The tender was due in five Business Days. They wanted me to do a fast Legal Review before they submitted.
I delivered the Legal Review by email with dot-point advice, as I do on every Construction Contract. The Legal Review identified the substantive legal issues across the General Conditions and the Special Conditions schedule. The Contractor now knew what each clause said.
What changed the commercial outcome was the Commercial Review they engaged me to do alongside the Legal Review, separately quoted. The Special Conditions had moved a series of risks onto the Contractor that an experienced commercial team would have priced into the tender.
The Principal had taken the design risk transfer further than the standard AS4902 position. The Liquidated Damages rate was high relative to industry practice for the Project type. The notice regime for variations and Extension of Time had been compressed. A pay-when-certified mechanism was buried in the payment clauses that, while it would not survive the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017 in Queensland, would put the Contractor on the back foot in every payment cycle.
I gave the Contractor a priority-ranked Statement of Departures, drafted in the Principal’s required format, and a parallel set of pricing recommendations for the Commercial Manager and Estimator to feed into the bid. The Contractor went back to the Principal on the most material departures and held its ground on the pricing position. A small handful of departures were accepted. The pricing for the risks that remained with the Contractor was carried into the tender at a level that reflected what the contract was transferring.
The Project ran to completion. Latent conditions appeared in the early earthworks, a Principal-caused delay event ran during the structure phase, and a series of variations were directed during fit-out. Each one of those issues had been priced into the tender or addressed in the departures that survived negotiation. By the time of final account, the Contractor was tracking to a margin position several million dollars stronger than the original internal forecast.
If you have a Construction Contract arriving at tender, engage a Construction Lawyer who can deliver both the Legal Review and a separately quoted Commercial Review while there is still time to feed the result into the bid.
Five steps. Direct contact with Rachelle from the first conversation.
Describe what your business is dealing with. Rachelle responds personally and advises whether she can help and what the next steps would be.
Send through any contracts, notices, correspondence or other documents relevant to the matter. Rachelle reviews them at a high level so she can give an accurate fixed-price quote.
Rachelle provides a fixed-price quote based on the specific scope. Smaller construction businesses pay a lower rate. A Commercial Review is available as a separately quoted add-on alongside any Legal Review.
Rachelle sends a Disclosure Notice and Costs Agreement with the quote. Once you sign and return it, work begins. The scope, fees and deliverables are documented in writing.
Rachelle works with you directly throughout the engagement. The advice is specific to your contract, your Project and your business.
Rachelle has spent her career inside construction businesses, alongside construction businesses, and acting for the Principal, the Head Contractor and the Subcontractor across Australia’s major Projects. That breadth is rare in a Construction Lawyer.
Over 25+ years, Rachelle has worked at every level of the Construction Industry. As Acting General Counsel at Thiess, then the largest private sector infrastructure contractor in Australia. As Senior Legal Counsel at Laing O’Rourke and Acciona. At UGL, Defence Housing Australia and Golding across defence, government infrastructure and civil construction. Through the Australian Government Solicitor advising Queensland and Commonwealth government clients on defence contracts and procurement.
Alongside those legal roles, Rachelle spent six years full-time as a Senior Commercial Manager on major Defence ICT Projects and nationally significant infrastructure and ICT Projects across Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. She prepared variation claims, managed Extension of Time submissions, dealt with the Principal’s representatives, and negotiated final accounts from inside the Contractor’s commercial team.
At Blaze Business & Legal, Rachelle works directly with construction business owners, Managing Directors, Commercial Managers and Contracts Administrators. She is your direct contact from the first conversation to the last.
“Within the first 3 minutes, it was obvious how deeply Rachelle understood my business and industry. She knows so much about business, about the legal side, about Construction Contracts and how businesses operate.”Robert F Owner, Civil Construction Company, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast
Brisbane is one of the most active construction markets in Australia. The legal environment for contractors and subcontractors working here is demanding. Four things are shaping the market right now.
AS4000:2025, released in June 2025, is the first update to the most widely used Australian Construct Only contract standard in nearly 30 years. It changes the default dispute resolution pathway, addresses the Personal Property Securities Act, adds Work Health and Safety provisions and introduces Subcontractor payment statement requirements. Both the 1997 and 2025 versions are in active use across Brisbane Projects.
The Queensland Procurement Policy 2026 commenced on 1 January 2026 and replaced the Best Practice Industry Conditions framework. For contractors bidding on Queensland government construction work, it changes how tenders are evaluated, what local content commitments apply, and what compliance obligations run during delivery.
The Building Industry Fairness Act 2017 gives Queensland contractors and subcontractors payment rights that the contract cannot override. Pay-when-paid clauses are void. Payment schedules must be issued within 15 Business Days or the full claimed amount becomes immediately due. Project Trust Accounts require Principals and Head Contractors on covered Projects to hold Project funds and retention in trust.
The 2026 cost environment has compounded the commercial risk on fixed-price work, particularly fixed-price government work where rise and fall mechanisms are not available. The Construction Cost Crisis resources cover what is happening and what to do about it.
“The Brisbane construction businesses managing this market well are the ones who treat their contracts as live documents. They serve notices on time. They preserve their entitlements before the time bars run. The ones in serious trouble are almost always the ones who waited until the dispute had already formed before getting commercial and legal advice. By then, the options have narrowed.”
Rachelle HareBased in Wavell Heights, Brisbane. Acting for construction businesses across Brisbane, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and across Australia. Meetings at the Wavell Heights office, at your site, or by video.
A Brisbane Construction Lawyer provides commercial and legal services across every stage of the construction Project lifecycle. The work covers reviewing and drafting Construction Contracts and subcontracts, advising on tender risk and Project Delivery Method selection, managing variation and Extension of Time claims, advising on payment recovery under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017, managing construction disputes and positioning for resolution, advising on QBCC licensing compliance, and providing ongoing legal and commercial oversight as External General Counsel. Rachelle Hare is a front-end Construction Lawyer, meaning her focus is on commercial and legal services throughout the Project rather than on formal litigation proceedings. Where litigation is required, Blaze Business & Legal works alongside specialist construction litigators.
A front-end Construction Lawyer works on the contract, the Project, the payment claim, the variation and the dispute before it becomes a formal proceeding. The work is preventative, commercial and time-sensitive. A specialist construction litigator runs formal proceedings in the Supreme Court of Queensland, in QCAT, in arbitration, and on appeal. Both are Construction Lawyers. The right choice depends on where the matter is. If the contract has not yet been signed, the variation is being prepared, the payment claim is in time, or the dispute has not yet crystallised, you call a front-end Construction Lawyer. If formal proceedings are unavoidable, you call a specialist construction litigator. Rachelle Hare works at the front end and works alongside specialist construction litigators on the small number of matters that require formal proceedings.
At Blaze Business & Legal, Construction Law work is provided on a fixed-price basis. After a short conversation about what your business needs, Rachelle reviews the relevant documents at a high level and provides a fixed-price quote before any engagement begins. Smaller construction businesses pay a lower rate, calculated on a lower hourly rate than for larger businesses, so the cost is proportionate to the scale of the business. A Commercial Review is available as a separately quoted add-on alongside any Legal Review. You know what you are paying before Rachelle starts and you will not receive a bill for work you did not agree to.
Blaze Business & Legal reviews and drafts every standard form and bespoke contract used in Australian construction. This includes AS4000-1997, AS4000:2025, AS2124, AS4902, AS4901, AS4903, ABIC MW and ABIC SW, NEC4, FIDIC Silver, Yellow and Red Books, GC21 for New South Wales government work, AUSDEFCON for Commonwealth defence contracts, and bespoke Head Contracts and subcontracts issued by major Principals and Head Contractors. Rachelle can also do fast-turnaround reviews when the contract review window is tight, and can prepare a Statement of Departures where you need to qualify your position on specific risk items at tender.
AS4000:2025, released in June 2025, is the first update to the AS4000 standard in nearly 30 years. The most significant changes for a Contractor working under the new version are: the default dispute resolution pathway moves from arbitration to litigation, requiring a different approach to dispute clauses; provisions addressing the Personal Property Securities Act are added, affecting how security and retention are dealt with; Work Health and Safety obligations are written into the General Conditions; Subcontractor payment statement requirements are introduced. Both the 1997 and 2025 versions are in active use across Brisbane Projects in 2026.
A Statement of Departures is a formal schedule prepared in response to a Principal’s draft contract at tender, listing the points on which the Contractor proposes to depart from the Principal’s drafting and what the Contractor’s preferred position is. It involves legal drafting in the format the Principal requires for tender submission, prioritised commercially so the most material departures are at the top, and written so the Sales Team, Commercial Manager, Estimator and bid team can use it directly in the bid response. Rachelle drafts Statements of Departures alongside contract reviews at tender stage and as a standalone deliverable.
A Commercial Review is a separate review of the Construction Contract through a commercial lens, drawing on Rachelle’s six years as a Senior Commercial Manager and her inside Tier 1 contractor experience. The Commercial Review examines pricing risk, cash flow impact, working capital impact, commercial risk ranking and what should be priced into the tender if the risk is being kept. It is available as a separately quoted add-on alongside any Legal Review. Very few Construction Lawyers in Australia have the breadth of legal and commercial management experience to deliver a Commercial Review alongside a Legal Review.
The terms Building Lawyer and Construction Lawyer are used interchangeably in Queensland. Both refer to lawyers who provide commercial and legal services in the Construction Industry, covering building contracts, security of payment under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017, QBCC licensing and compliance, defects, variations, Extension of Time claims, payment disputes and construction dispute management. Rachelle Hare practises across the full scope of building and Construction Law in Brisbane, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
A rejected variation claim is one of the most common issues Brisbane contractors and subcontractors bring to Rachelle. The starting point is checking whether the proper notice was served within the period required by your specific contract. Different contracts set different timeframes, so it matters what your contract requires rather than assuming a standard period applies. If the notice was served in time, the next step is assessing whether the variation is properly evidenced and valued. If the notice was not served in time, there may still be options depending on the contract terms, the other party’s conduct and the circumstances. Early engagement after a rejection keeps more options open.
No. Pay-when-paid clauses are void and unenforceable under the Building Industry Fairness Act 2017 in Queensland in the circumstances the legislation covers. Subcontractors in Queensland keep their right to serve a payment claim and pursue recovery of that payment regardless of whether the Head Contractor has been paid by the Principal. This is one of the most commercially significant protections the Building Industry Fairness Act provides to subcontractors working on Queensland construction Projects.
Liquidated Damages is a pre-agreed rate of damages specified in the Construction Contract, payable by the Contractor for each day or week of delay beyond the contractual Date for Completion. It operates as an agreed assessment of the Principal’s loss and does not require actual loss to be proved separately. Whether a Contractor is exposed to Liquidated Damages depends on whether an Extension of Time has been properly claimed and granted, whether the Principal’s own conduct contributed to the delay, and whether the Liquidated Damages rate is a genuine pre-estimate of loss rather than a penalty enforceable under Australian law.
Rachelle is a front-end Construction Lawyer. The focus is on preventing disputes, managing them when they arise, and reducing their commercial impact. Where a matter proceeds to formal litigation in the Supreme Court of Queensland, in QCAT, or to arbitration, Blaze Business & Legal works alongside specialist construction litigators while Rachelle continues to manage the commercial, contractual and strategic dimensions throughout. The combination means the formal proceedings are informed by someone who understands how the Project went wrong, what the contractual position is, and what is at stake commercially for the business.
Blaze Business & Legal acts for construction businesses across a broad range of sizes. The strongest fit is construction businesses turning over $5M to $200M facing genuine Project complexity and commercial risk. Smaller businesses within that range pay a lower rate when the fixed-price quote is calculated, so the cost of expert commercial and legal services is proportionate to the scale of the business. Businesses outside that range are welcome to reach out and Rachelle will advise whether she can assist.
Yes. Rachelle holds a current Queensland practising certificate and has practised in Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra throughout her career. She advises construction businesses operating across Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory on Construction Contracts and Australian national Construction Law matters. Where businesses operate across multiple jurisdictions, the applicable security of payment legislation, payment timeframes and adjudication procedures differ depending on where the construction work is performed. Rachelle advises on which rules apply in each jurisdiction and how to manage compliance across state borders.
Call Rachelle directly, or send a message and she will respond personally. Every Construction Law engagement at Blaze Business & Legal starts with a fixed-price quote. Smaller construction businesses pay a lower rate.
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