Function-based defence
Your role on the project defined and defended precisely — designer is not supervisor is not executor, and damages follow the distinction.
Real estate & construction disputes
Defects, delays and projects that ended in court instead of handover.
Aun & Co. litigates real estate and construction disputes in Israel: building defects, urban-renewal projects, contractor claims and expert-driven quantum battles.
Construction disputes are decided by experts and chronologies. A defects claim under the Sale (Apartments) Law 1973 turns on notice periods, the statutory warranty regime and the credibility of competing engineering opinions; a delay claim turns on who owned which day of the timeline. The firm acts for developers, contractors, design professionals and purchasers, including in urban-renewal (TAMA) projects where liability is spread across a chain of entities that all point at each other.
The work spans
- Building-defect claims under the Sale (Apartments) Law 1973
- Defence of developers, contractors, engineers and architects
- Delay, disruption and payment claims on construction contracts
- Urban-renewal project disputes: purchasers, occupants, entrepreneurs
- Managing party experts against the court-appointed expert
- Purchasers served a multi-million defects claim and every professional on the project is a defendant.
- Your contractor abandoned the site and now claims the unpaid balance plus prolongation costs.
- The court expert's opinion landed and it disagrees with your expert by an order of magnitude.
- An urban-renewal developer's promises to occupants are surfacing as claims against everyone signed on the permit.
The timeline comes first: agreement, permit, occupancy certificate, complaint letters, repair attempts — each date changes which claims are alive. Then role separation: in multi-defendant cases the firm defines precisely which function its client held, because liability in construction follows function, not proximity. The expert battle is run as its own campaign, with the court-appointed expert's examination treated as the trial before the trial.
04 · What you get
The expert campaign
Questions to the court expert, examination strategy and counter-opinions run as a coordinated track, where these cases are actually won.
Warranty clock discipline
Statutory inspection and warranty periods mapped item by item, because a defect noticed late is often a defect with no claim.
The firm has acted for a design professional among several defendants in a purchasers' defects action on an urban-renewal project, separating design scope from execution and supervision, and confining the expert-quantified items to those attributable to its client's actual function.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
How long is a developer liable for building defects in Israel?
The Sale (Apartments) Law 1973 sets item-specific inspection periods followed by a warranty period, ranging from about a year to several years depending on the defect category. Timely written notice is critical — late notice can defeat an otherwise good claim.
Who is liable when a building has defects — developer, contractor or engineer?
Each according to function: the seller-developer answers to purchasers under the statute; contractors and design professionals answer by contract and negligence for their scope. Multi-defendant claims usually resolve into an allocation fight among the professionals.
How much weight does a court-appointed expert's opinion carry?
Considerable. Israeli courts tend to adopt the court expert's findings absent strong reasons, so the real advocacy is in the questions put to the expert and the cross-examination — that is where the quantum moves.