Contract terms & void costs agreements

A separate research track for contractual construction, fixed or conditional payment obligations, statutory illegality, severance and the difference between contractual entitlement and costs assessment. Higher-court judgments are prioritised. Research index only; read each judgment.

Statutes are not interchangeable with common law: WA contract law is principally common law, with statute-specific restrictions. A contractual fee clause does not by itself answer whether the Uniform Law requires a costs assessment. No judgment listed is represented as deciding the exact $15,000 contractual fallback wording.