Legal

The former director of a London housebuilder has won a lengthy legal battle over £2.4m owed to him by the company, which is run by his wife's brothers. Shafiq Malik is entitled to the payment after the Court of Appeal dismissed an attempt by Henley Homes to overturn a previous…

The developer of a block of flats in Kettering has been ordered to demolish the building’s top two floors after the local council took legal action against it. North Northamptonshire Council brought a case against the Northampton-based Michigan Construction Ltd following a two-year dispute. Michigan was granted planning permission in…

A dispute between Bam Nuttall and Cambridgeshire County Council over alleged defects on a guided busway has been settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. The £152m busway, which links Cambridge to the Cambridgeshire market town of St Ives, was completed in 2011. However, the council was seeking compensation…

The latest annual financial statement from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry reveals that it spent £20.7m in the year to the end of March 2023, taking its total expenditure to £170m. Some £69.7m, or 41 per cent, of its spending went on fees for lawyers representing core participants of the inquiry.…

An employment tribunal has ordered a demolition firm to pay more than £120,000 to a sacked employee who successfully claimed unfair dismissal. South London-based Tower Demolition (Holdings) Ltd was found to have dismissed Mr I Turner for whistleblowing, contrary to the Employment Rights Act 1996. The tribunal heard that in…

Crest Nicholson has been found liable for the actions of a site manager who an employment tribunal said had raped a colleague after a work Christmas party. The firm was held responsible for the actions of its employee, even though the rape did not happen during working hours or in…

Cantillon’s former MD may continue working as a director at the demolition firm despite pledging not to be a company director for almost five years, a High Court judge has ruled. Paul Cluskey, 49, signed a ‘company disqualification undertaking’ with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in February, admitting his…

Barratt, the UK’s biggest housebuilder, has said its chair John Allan will step down earlier than planned to avoid misconduct allegations against him – which he denies – becoming “disruptive” to the firm.  Allan, who is the former president of under-fire lobby group the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), will…

ISG Retail has been ordered to comply with an adjudicator’s decision that it should pay a roofing and cladding subcontractor £1.692m plus interest in a contract dispute. FK Construction took ISG to court after ISG failed to comply with an adjudicator’s February decision that the payment should be made in…

A Conservative backbencher has called for a new legally binding code of conduct for developers carrying out cladding remediation. Introducing the Cladding Remediation Works (Code of Practice) Bill in the House of Commons on 9 May, Ipswich MP Tom Hunt (pictured) said: “Now is the time to bring in a…