Legal

A Dundee-based scaffolding company and its director have been disqualified for five years for the repeated unlawful use of a vehicle. The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Claire Gilmore, barred AFS Scaffolding and director Ross Findlay from holding or obtaining an operator’s licence, at a public hearing in Edinburgh. The road…

Three firms have been fined a total of £36m for fixing the price of precast concrete drainage products over a seven-year period. An investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found the cartel had agreed to fix prices and share the market by allocating each other customers between July…

Transport for London is to award the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel contract after a consortium taking action allowed a legal block to be lifted. In August, TfL was forced to suspend plans for the scheme after its reserve bidder, Silver Thames Connect (STC) – a consortium including Hochtief, Dragodas and Iridium…

Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has condemned what she called an "apparently callous disregard for safety" in the construction of the world’s largest airport. The $12bn new Istanbul Airport – which involved a host of leading UK architects and engineers – was dubbed 'the cemetery' by workers because so many…

Doosan Enpure has been awarded the £5.3m it was owed as part of a joint venture with Interserve after a judge ruled the contractor had interpreted the JV's pain/gain contract incorrectly. Doosan and Interserve started work on an upgrade of Horsley Water Treatment Works for Northumbrian Water with a target…

Balfour Beatty head of legal Jonathan Lagan has left the company after less than six months. Mr Lagan took over the post in March this year after the retirement of David Mercer. Prior to joining Balfour, Mr Lagan spent ten years at Tesco in several different leadership positions. He was…

Interserve chief executive Debbie White was unaware of the “failings of a third party” when she told the public accounts committee (PAC) in June 2018 that the tier one contractor had “not found any instances” of modern slavery in its supply chain. But a Construction News investigation carried out over…

Award of the Silvertown Tunnel design, build, finance and maintain contract has been suspended following a legal challenge from the losing bidder. Transport for London (TfL) has been forced to suspend plans for the £1bn scheme after its reserve bidder, Silver Thames Connect (STC) – a consortium which includes Hochtief,…

The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has disqualified three directors associated with fit-out firm Fourfront Group as well as its subsidiary Area Sq. The trio were found to have been part of an office fit-out cartel involved in cover bidding, which involves placing bids that are intended to lose contracts…

McLaren’s contract to build a converter station for the world's longest undersea electricity transmission cable was cancelled in May and has become the subject of a legal dispute. A Technology and Construction Court ruling has revealed that power company ABB, principal contractor on the $450m (£350m) project, sought to terminate McLaren’s…