All Legal articles – Page 132
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Insurers to review timber-frame safety as claims soar 16%
The insurance industry has said it will launch a probe into the safety of timber-framed buildings, as concern grows over the cost of fire-related claims
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NewsInformation rules may put contractors off Scottish market
Lawyers warn that plans to extend Freedom of Information Act may be seen as a barrier to building firms
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CommentPayment rules: Financial mechanics
The new Construction Act may be but a distant prospect, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make a few educated guesses as to how its payment rules will work
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Blacklisted worker lawsuit could cost firms millions
Class action to be brought against over 40 firms including Balfour Beatty, Laing O’Rourke and Kier
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CommentACE agreements: Altogether now
The recent streamlining of the two design agreements for consultants into one brings simplicity and flexibility as well as a new take on liability
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Interserve sues Bovis for £3m in sweet factory dispute
Details have emerged of a legal row between Bovis Lend Lease and Interserve over M&E work carried out by the latter on a £49m sweet factory in Yorkshire
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NewsGovernment to outlaw worker blacklisting
Lord Young reveals plan to stamp out 'despicable practice' of barring trade union activists from employment
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NewsCIOB threatens to expel cover-pricing firms
Professional body to launch own investigation into 10 member firms found guilty in OFT inquiry
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NewsFirms fined £126k after fatal scaffold collapse
McAleer & Rushe and Lee Smith Carpentry order to pay after one man died and two others were injured in a site accident in Milton Keynes
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NewsDurkan to appeal OFT fine
Firm to please innocent to charge related to its contracting arm and refute fine related to company it sold in 2007
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CommentDispute over loft extension: Just how annoyed am I?
When the Court of Appeal pondered the case of a spoilt view, the judges had to imagine themselves as ordinary, sensible members of the public and ask one simple question...
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NewsBuilding firms face tough new bribery law
New anti-corruption bill in Queen's speech could leave construction firms open to bribery charges
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NewsCandys to fight former employee in court
Dispute over termination of contract and £160,000 bonus steps up a notch
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NewsLondon property developer fined £10k for safety breaches
Lahrie Mohamed pleaded guilty to putting workers at risk on two schemes
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NewsBellway loses beauty contest
Beautician Gerorgina Blackwell wins £75,000 compensation in High Court in row over access rights
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Industry slams payment law plans
A new group has been created out of the soon-to-be dissolved Construction Confederation to lobby parliament over the poor drafting of payment clauses in the Construction Bill
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‘Whistleblower’ to sue Balfour Beatty for unfair dismissal
A former Balfour Beatty employee has been given the go-ahead by a judge to press a claim of up to £300,000 for unfair dismissal under the Whistleblowers Act
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CC applies for liquidation
Trustees of the Construction Confederation’s pension scheme have issued a petition for the group to be liquidated
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CommentAdjucation enforcement: When to use the f-word
It’s easy to bandy about the word ‘fraud’ in the hope of defeating enforcement in civil proceedings, but you’d better make sure you have sufficient evidence to back it up