Legal

A man has been fined for illegally working as a security guard at a construction site in Rhondda, South Wales. On 8 January, South Wales Police responded to an alarm at the site, where Aymen Essa was working. They found that Essa, who was working at a site on an…

The Insolvency Service has dropped court action against Carillion’s former chair and interim chief executive at the 11th hour.  The defunct contractor’s chair, Philip Green, and Keith Cochrane, who was interim chief executive between July 2017 until the firm’s collapse in January 2018, were among five former non-executive directors who…

A developer has been fined for endangering the welfare and conservation status of bats on a Derbyshire housing scheme. Patrick Weekes, a director of Radbourne Construction Limited of Vernongate, Derby, was ordered to pay a total of £14,435 (including costs) after pleading guilty to four charges relating to the development…

Wates and Morgan Sindall have forced three companies using their identities to rename themselves, after an official complaint. Wates Services Limited and Wates Contractor Limited were registered with Companies House in August and December 2022 respectively, and Morgan Sindall Limited was registered in January 2023. The companies are not related…

Kier is being sued over its work on an allegedly defective £36m police station – 15 years after it was completed. Administrators for a private finance initiative (PFI) company are looking for £3.5m from the contractor for the costs of the alleged problems, which relate to areas including the station’s…

Bellway has been cleared of improperly sanctioning an employee who tried to resell a former show home sofa she bought through a company-run charity auction. Karen Bushrod was a part-time salesperson at Bellway’s office in Corsham, Wiltshire, but left the housebuilder in October 2021 after receiving a written warning. An…

After four years of investigation, police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have announced there will be no manslaughter charges in relation to the deaths of two demolition workers at a decommissioned steelworks. John Mackay, 49, and Tommy Williams, 65, died following an explosion at the former British Steel…

A supply chain firm has been ordered to pay a former staff member £22,000, after a tribunal cast doubt on its claims the ex-employee had pocketed cash by secretly hiring out its products. Concord Lifting Equipment (CLE), based in Wimbledon, south-west London, claimed that the former staff member had committed…

The High Court has ordered a Welsh council to pay Alun Griffiths £3.3m – and dismissed its argument for postponing payment as “spurious”. In an earlier adjudication, Carmarthenshire County Council was found to have owed £3,316,487.55 to Alun Griffiths in relation to the contractor’s work on the A48 road. Carmarthenshire…

A council has said it told the operator of a club to stop construction work less than two weeks before a nightclub worker was killed in a fire. In August 2016, Tomas Ceida died at the Studio 338 club in Greenwich, south London. According to reports, he had been asleep…