Tag: Principal Control
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The concurrent penalty trap—The ACT crane case rejects the hierarchy of principal control
The ACT Industrial Court has shattered the legal defensibility of downstream capitulation within multi-tiered contracting environments. In a landmark prosecution, a specialized crane subcontractor was convicted and fined $300,000 following a fatal mobile crane rollover incident at a Canberra hospital construction site. The subcontractor attempted to mitigate its liability by arguing that it was operationally…