
Cooling Off Periods In Domestic Building Contracts
In this episode, we discuss cooling off periods under domestic building contracts. This is not legal advice.

Hosted by Josh Whittingham · 🇺🇸 us · EN · 22 episodes
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A podcast all about domestic building in Victoria, Australia. We help homeowners and anyone looking to understand the building process in more detail. Although I am a construction lawyer, this is not legal advice.
Josh Whittingham hosts The BILD Lab Podcast, a leisure show with 22 episodes published.

In this episode, we discuss cooling off periods under domestic building contracts. This is not legal advice.

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