Legal

A construction firm has agreed an out-of-court settlement with a Scottish Government agency over a funicular railway that had to be closed 17 years after construction due to safety concerns. Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) announced this week that it will receive £11m relating to two separate claims. The first…

Henry Construction Projects was served with nine notices from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in its last weeks of trading, Construction News can reveal. The collapsed contractor was targeted for repeated inspections by the HSE because of its poor safety performance, with inspectors issuing the nine notices between 16-26…

Two contractors fined a combined £22m for taking part in the demolition sector’s cover-bidding scandal have lodged appeals, claiming the competition watchdog made errors over defining the relevant market. In March, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) fined Keltbray, Squibb Group and eight other firms it found had colluded on…

The trade body for the demolition industry has condemned the knocking down of the 18th century Crooked House pub in Staffordshire. The building in Himley, described as “Britain’s wonkiest pub”, was pulled down with an excavator on 7 August, two days after fire which the police are treating as suspected…

Ballymore employees working on the company's Embassy Gardens development in Nine Elms, south west London, suffered “harassment related to race”, an employment tribunal has found. According to the judgement, the claimants were subjected to “harassment related to race” as they were “unjustifiably” treated “as a group of poor performing individuals”,…

The owner of the plant firm that owns the excavator used to demolish the 18th Century Crooked House pub in the West Midlands has denied any involvement in carrying out the work. South Staffordshire District Council has launched an investigation into potential breaches of planning and building laws after the…

Cladding contractor FK Construction has been told to repay ISG almost £1.8m in the latest twist in a long-running payment dispute. In May, the Technology & Construction Court (TCC) ordered ISG to comply with an adjudicator’s decision that it should pay FK Construction the sum following a contractual wrangle. FK…

A second former Carillion boss has been banned from being a director for more than a decade after a finding that he provided false and misleading financial information. The Insolvency Service, which is overseeing Carillion’s liquidation, said it had accepted a disqualification undertaking from Richard Adam, the company’s finance director…

Rydon has made a £26.7m provision for its part of a settlement with those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. The company, which was main contractor on the 2015 refurbishment of the west London tower block, was one of several companies and organisations involved in a settlement agreed with 900…

Two victims of the 2020 Bow crane collapse are suing a housing association and structural engineers over the incident, and have slammed the length of time the official investigation is taking. On 8 July 2020, 85-year-old June Harvey (pictured below) died after a 27-metre crane crashed through the roof of…