Legal

A teenager has been arrested in connection with the fatality of a worker on a construction site in the north-east. Cleveland Police said the 18-year-old man was arrested and subsequently released under investigation amid inquiries into the circumstances leading to the death of a man believed to be in his…

The Department for Transport (DfT) is facing a legal challenge over its decision to approve the £1bn A428 improvement scheme due to be built by Skanska. Last year, the contractor won the race to build a new dual carriageway between Milton Keynes and Cambridge in the East of England. The…

A Leicestershire contractor has been fined £80,000 after an employee suffered serious injuries falling through a "fragile roof". Cairns Heritage Homes was prosecuted by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The firm must…

A Southampton construction boss has been banned from being a company director for seven years. Marian Daniel Clipici, sole director of Dahlial, failed to keep adequate accounts while his business was trading between 2017 and 2021 and was unable to explain the use of a pandemic Bounce Back loan. Clipici’s…

Galliford Try has clinched a legal victory in a dispute over its obligations to the long-term condition of a local authority sheltered-housing project in North Tyneside. The judgment, delivered by the Technology and Construction Court on 21 September, addressed whether the contractor was liable for the condition of refurbished properties…

The Department for Transport (DfT) and HS2 have won a legal battle to ban "disruptive protests" across the whole of its phase one and 2a routes. HS2 said that the High Court ruling from justice Julian Knowles will prevent violence, intimidation and criminal damage but allow “legitimate protest”. The DfT had…

Thousands of construction workers have been put in a “pay limbo” ahead of Queen Elizabeth's funeral next Monday, Unite has warned. The trade union argued that staff are unsure of whether they will have to go to work on 19 September and, if not, whether they will be paid due…

An employment tribunal has ruled against a collapsed contractor and said its workers should receive compensation over a breach of employment law following their dismissal. Central Building Contractors (CBC) was a Glasgow-based firm that went into administration in April 2020, after it crumbled under cashflow problems amplified by the coronavirus…

The boss of a Lancashire-based roofing firm has been handed a suspended prison sentence after an employee fell and died at a construction site. In May 2021, a worker employed by Richard Thornton, trading as Vanguard Roofing, was carrying out roof replacement works on a domestic building in Burnley. On…

Creditors of collapsed contractor Henry W Pollard are seeking more than £15m from the company, including a £5m pension deficit which may be probed over alleged "misrepresentations". Administrators of the Somerset-based firm, which went under in June 2021 after 161 years of trading, said in an update posted to Companies…