Legal

Grosvenor is suing Balfour Beatty for £4.4m over alleged defects in a 13-storey building in one of Liverpool city centre’s flagship developments. Grosvenor Liverpool Fund, an investment vehicle set up by the Grosvenor Group, has lodged a claim against Balfour Beatty and a subsidiary over what it says were problems…

A director who allowed thousands of tonnes of waste to be illegally deposited in a former quarry has been jailed for more than two years. Mark Foley, 63, allowed hazardous material to be dumped at Stowey Quarry, a former limestone quarry, near the Chew Valley reservoir in Somerset. He operated…

Arup staff have been warned to check their bank accounts for signs of unusual activity after the consultant’s payroll provider was hit by a cyber attack. According to law firm CEL Solicitors, the names, bank account numbers, sort codes and other personal details of its staff were stolen by hackers…

From today, contractors will have to take on self-employed people they use consistently as PAYE staff. Those that are unprepared will face trouble with HMRC, a tax expert has warned. The IR35 change was announced in 2018 and large contractors are understood to have done extensive preparation for the new…

The director of a wound-up scaffolding company has been banned for four years after spending cash owed to creditors on gambling and his family. Colin Gerrard Taylor, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, was director of Coventry-based scaffolding firm Godiva Environmental Solutions Ltd. After suffering financial difficulties, it ceased trading in May last…

Multiplex’s attempt to sue the insurer of a failed design consultant that worked on 100 Bishopsgate for £5m has been struck down in court. The case concerned the construction of the original slip-form rig built on the City of London skyscraper. Concrete specialist Dunne collapsed in mid-2016 after it had…

Directors of two concrete suppliers have received the longest bans ever handed down by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Eoin McCann and Francis McCann of precast concrete supplier FP McCann have been barred from holding directorships for 12 and 11 years respectively. They were found to have colluded with…

A company director who colluded with a rival rolled-lead firm and tried to hide it by using a dedicated mobile phone has been disqualified. He is one of three men who have been disqualified for forming a cartel. Last year, the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) found that Hertfordshire-headquartered firms…

An entity named ‘Carillion’ has appeared on an HMRC list of claimants of furlough cash. The list of claimants for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) – recently released for the first time in a bid to make the scheme transparent and deter fraud – includes company trading names and…

The High Court has ruled that HS2 did not incorrectly procure the £1.3bn Old Oak Common station contract. Losing bidder Bechtel had challenged the megaproject’s award of the contract to a Balfour Beatty / Vinci / Systra (BBVS) joint venture on the basis that its bid was abnormally low. Bechtel…