A roll of tape, a handsaw and a small piece of wood at the centre of a $2.6m dispute in Queensland

Supreme court judge overturns building tribunal ruling in dispute between electrical contractor and solar farm owner

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This big case is about a small bit of wood," begins the judgment, written by the Queensland supreme court justice Peter Applegarth.

To be more precise, the case was about a $2.6m contract dispute between an electrical contractor and the owner of a solar farm near Hervey Bay.

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