Legal

Family members of Henry Construction received millions of pounds from the firm to pay for luxury homes and to settle tax debts prior to its administration, the company’s administrators have claimed. Administrators for Henry Construction Projects Ltd have lodged proceedings at the High Court against both of its former directors,…

A woman who was jailed for defrauding two construction firms of more than £500,000 has been ordered to repay more than £80,000 of the funds she embezzled. Stephanni Houston, 41, of Ayr, was sentenced to 38 months in prison in November 2023 for stealing £516,000 over a four-year period, Scotland’s…

Police have widened the search for the director of a construction firm wanted over manslaughter charges relating to a site death. It comes after a judge issued an arrest warrant for Peter Clifford over the death of a man who died while undertaking renovation work at a house in Woodbridge,…

An NHS trust is taking legal advice in a dispute with contractors over leak-related defects on two building projects worth a combined £103m. South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust said the damage could cause a hold-up of up to nine months. The cost of the delays presently stands at over…

An employment tribunal has dismissed a discrimination case brought against Morgan Sindall on the grounds the claimant was not a contract worker. Electrical installer Mr K Crossland took legal action in October 2024 against contractors Whitehead Building Services Ltd and Morgan Sindall for disability discrimination, age discrimination and victimisation under…

A construction firm and its director have been fined more than £100,000 after a worker suffered “significant life-changing injuries” after falling through a roof. Jack Croft, a subcontractor from Bedale in North Yorkshire, fell 6 metres from a roof while working for contractor Norman Iveson Steel Products on a project…

Two firms have been fined a total of £8,500 after a roofer fell while working on a house extension. The man was one of several workers employed by Roofrite (Shropshire) Ltd who were carrying out work on the roof of a property on 9 December 2022, the Health and Safety…

The High Court has rejected a bid for a judicial review over HS2’s extension of the Bromford Tunnel in the West Midlands. North Warwickshire Borough Council (NWBC) had launched a legal challenge against a decision last year by transport and levelling-up secretaries to overrule its rejection of an application by…

A firm manufacturing stone kitchen worktops has been fined £60,000 plus costs for repeated failures to protect workers from exposure to hazardous silica dust. In a statement yesterday (22 May), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its investigators visited Inova Stone Ltd nine times in six years “and found…

The Building Safety Act’s 30-year retrospective extension of liability for building defects can be applied to all parties in the construction supply chain, the Supreme Court has ruled. A panel of judges this week rejected the argument of structural engineer URS that it should not be held responsible for costs…