Legal

A carpenter unhappy at being offered a lower salaried job during a redundancy process has lost two unfair dismissal claims against Bam Construction & Ventures UK. Nikolay Avramov joined Bam in 2009 as a carpenter and moved into its aftercare team in 2014, carrying out carpentry and repair work. Following…

Allowing individual companies that are part of joint ventures (JVs) to pursue adjudications on their own would cause “chaos”, the High Court has ruled. Darchem Engineering has lost its case at the Technology and Construction Court to enforce adjudication rulings against Bylor – the Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics…

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has said it is satisfied with HS2’s response to the serious near-miss that led to a pause on its London tunnels work. On 29 September last year, a beam struck a crane basket with two workers inside as a gantry crane was being disassembled…

A plant hire company has been fined £10,000 after a 1-tonne JCB bucket fell onto a worker, leaving him with life-changing injuries. According to a statement from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Salford Grab Hire employee was helping to repair a lifting mechanism on a tipper truck body,…

The High Court has rejected a contractor’s attempt to stop a bank paying a developer almost £2.5m under a performance bond. The Technology and Construction Court ruled that Barclays Bank could not be restrained from meeting a demand made by Northern Gateway (FEC) No. 7 Ltd under a bond linked…

A self‑employed contractor has been jailed after a teenager fell to his death during demolition works on a property in Surrey. Jason Hill, 59, hired Tom Neate, 19, to help demolish a garage at an address on Glebe Road in Staines-upon-Thames in preparation for an extension, according to a statement…

The High Court has awarded £35m in damages to the freeholder of a high-end London development after a Laing O’Rourke subsidiary withdrew from the case, leaving the trial to proceed without a defence. In a judgment handed down remotely on 2 February 2026, Mrs Justice Jefford ruled that Laing O’Rourke…

Tarmac has been fined £630,000 after a worker’s legs were crushed between one-tonne metal frames on a production line in Essex. Richard Ogunleye entered a fenced area to clean and inspect frames at the Tarmac Building Products manufacturing facility at Linford in Thurrock, Essex, according to a statement from the…

A firm supplying stone and marble to the construction sector has been fined after a worker was killed when granite slabs fell from a lorry loader. Steven White, 61, was offloading stone slabs at Blyth Marble Ltd's depot in Larkhall, Lanarkshire, when the incident happened on 4 September 2024, the…

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has widened its active probe into suspected bid-rigging on school roofing contracts to cover activity by more firms. Its investigation now includes unnamed “additional parties”, the watchdog announced yesterday (29 January) in a statement. The probe. launched in December, was originally focused on roofing…