ABC Pty Ltd has a contract with a mining company, providing cleaning services on a large scale at its work camps.

The mining company has recently been prosecuted by a local council because of the unhygienic state of a kitchen in one of the work camps.

The mining company is withholding payment for cleaning at all work camps until the outcome of the prosecution.

The mining says it will deduct the fine that is handed down by the Court from the money payable to ABC Pty Ltd pursuant to the contract.

ABC Pty Ltd asserts that it is not responsible for the unhygienic state of the kitchen and that, in any event, it is entitled to receive payment for work done in relation to all the other work camps.

ABC Pty Ltd seeks a lawyer to commence a case for payment for work done.