Legal News – Page 45
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NewsConstruction Bill amendment frees up PFI lending
Last-minute amendment as bill passed by Commons will reduce investment risk for PFI consortiums
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NewsJohn Doyle fined for worker falling from scaffolding
Contractor pleads guilty after worker falls six meters on Liverpool One development
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NewsHomebuyers forced to complete abandoned deals
Developers and builders seek legal action to enforce contracts ditched through lack of finance
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NewsTwo firms fined for exposing workers to asbestos
Noble Gift Packaging and A&T Roofing plead guilty to breaches leading to workers and public being exposed to deadly asbestos fibres
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NewsBalfour Beatty's £1.4m award upheld after legal wrangle with Shepherd
Mr Justice Akenhead enforces adjudicator's decision, despite criticizing it for poor grammar and “unconventional sentence structure”
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NewsExperts say gem of Tanzania is "worthless"
2kg ruby named as asset by Wrekin construction is worth "about £100"
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NewsSix recruitment agencies fined £39m for price-fixing
OFT gives two firms immunity for providing information on cartel guilty of collective boycotting and fixing fee rates
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NewsHundreds of tower blocks not fire checked
BBC investigation after Lakanal House tragedy reveals councils committing criminal offence of failing to carry out fire risk assessments
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NewsMabey & Johnson guilty of overseas corruption
Bridge contractor pleads guilty to charges of corruption in Jamaica, Ghana and Iraq
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NewsClients set to blacklist cover-pricing contractors
£1.2bn consortium could drop OFT firms from deals as councils plan compensation claims
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NewsOFT: councils can sue guilty contractors
Watchdog says legal action and blacklisting would be 'understandable'
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NewsLocals launch Wigan BSF legal challenge
Opponents to new 'super school' scheme want land to be ringfenced for community use
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NewsIs it still cover pricing without the phone call?
The OFT has outlawed cover pricing, but that won’t stop firms putting in high bids so they lose contracts they can’t cope with
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NewsOFT: 'Councils are free to sue'
Director in charge of competition body's bid-rigging inquiry says local authorities should feel free to take legal action against guilty firms
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NewsDurkan vows to fight OFT over subdivision's £3.1m fine
Contractor disputes liability for cover-pricing at Concentra, which it sold off in 2007
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NewsOFT says six firms paid or received compensation payments
Fines imposed on Bowmer and Kirkland, Durkan, Herbert Baggaley, Mansell, Thomas Fish and Wildgoose Construction
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NewsWillmott Dixon may appeal against £4.5m OFT fine
Contractor will 'carefully consider' details of decision over cover pricing and grounds for appeal
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NewsGalliford Try set to appeal against OFT fine
Contractor says it did not gain financially from practice of cover pricing
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NewsKier suffers £18m OFT fine
Contractor slapped with largest bid rigging fine while nine more are hit by penalties of over £5m
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NewsBid rigging firms hit by massive OFT fines
Contractors found guilty of cover pricing ordered to pay severe fines totalling £130m