From New Zealand Comes This Headline-LEAKY BUILDINGS AND LAWYERS. Hmm, I think I've heard that one before...

This sounds familiar, except for their proposed solution. Read on through some excepts, then click the headline to go to the webpage...


Leaky Buildings and Lawyers

It is reported that nearly 80,000 homes in New Zealand are affected by this crisis - and that is only the ones we know about. For every person affected, there is the ripple effect on his or her families and extended families.

Let’s looks at what happened in New Zealand that contributed to this crisis.

We decided that Mediterranean architecture looked cool and new homebuyers all wanted one. (Consumer demand). We failed to remember that NZ is not Mediterranean. It rains here quite a lot.

We started thinking about housing as a fashion statement and status symbol, rather than a need to be functionally satisfied.

It is not just the owners that are affected. It is the people who built these homes - usually in good faith. It is the architects who designed them to appeal to their customers. It is the public not yet affected who may become so by purchasing one of these properties. And, alternatively, there those who have homes that look like they might leak, but don’t, and so can’t sell them.

All these people are now facing at least inconvenience or at worst ruin. And in reality we are all as a society to blame, each and every one of us, including those who have never bought a leaky home, owned one and passed it on knowingly or unknowingly.

So while a growing avalanche of problems is emerging, who is profiting? Lawyers of course, plus the support expert witnesses.

You should all read Ben Elton’s book, The Other Eden. In this book a chapter describes a concept of “LFS” - Litigation Frenzy Syndrome. Elton describes a disaster in which those who were needed to save the people and solve the problem could not get to the site as lawyers seeking to get instructions from affected clients blocked the roads.

Sound familiar?

But have no fear, the lawyers will - like sharks - move on when the food runs out. Elton also described the first law of legal dynamics: “All litigation expands exponentially to consume the amount of money available.” The corollary being that all litigation stops when the money runs out.

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