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

File photo of solar farm panels. Ingeteam has won a supreme court appeal in part of its dispute with the Susan River Solar Farm near Hervey Bay. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

“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.