Legal – Page 134
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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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‘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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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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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
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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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NewsLovells fined for seven-year-old's death
Housebuilder ordered to pay up £75,000 after child falls from three storey building
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NewsLaing O'Rourke fined over Heathrow death
Contractor pays £150k in fines and legal costs after concrete slab fell and killed one worker and left another with serious injuries
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NewsJPA Design & Build vs Sentosa (UK): Setting off damages
Our Fenwick Elliott expert discusses a dispute over the design and construction of a medical centre
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CommentMinimum damage: Liquidated damages
Liquidated damages are often fought over, but rarely understood. Here’s a guide to the pitfalls to avoid when trying to claim them …
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CommentIn banks we trust: Project bank accounts
One reason disputes turn nasty is that the payee suspects that the payer is coming up with spurious excuses not to pay. Luckily, there’s something we can do about this