Legal

A property vehicle half-owned by Urban Splash is pursuing a claim of £21m from consultancy Arcadis over delays to a housing scheme in Salford, Greater Manchester. The dispute relates to work on the three-block Upton phase of the Irwell Riverside scheme near Trinity Way, being developed by special purpose vehicle…

L&G is suing a contractor, architect and structural engineer over alleged defects at an Aberdeen city centre office block. The seven storey Union Plaza building, currently let to several companies including Deloitte, was built by Stewart Milne Group and completed in 2008. It was owned by a Stewart Milne Group…

A builder has been fined and handed a suspended prison sentence after fraudulently claiming a £50,000 Covid loan which he subsequently lost in a crypto scam. Lukasz Nowak, a self-employed builder from Hounslow in West London, claimed the maximum amount available from the government under the Bounce Back Loan Scheme…

A judge has dismissed Lendlease’s attempt to sue Aecom for £3m over fire-safety defects at a cancer centre it worked on in Yorkshire. Justice Stephen Eyre said he would have found the consultancy liable for eight defects if Lendlease had brought the legal action about nine months earlier, but stated…

Two companies have been fined a total of £240,000 after two workers fell 27 metres as the result of a defective cradle. Marcel Botnaru and Radu Baracu were working in the cradle at level nine of a residential tower in Pennington Street, Wapping, east London. According to a statement from…

Edinburgh City Council is still dealing with an ongoing legal claim almost a decade after the opening of its troubled tram system, it has emerged. The Scottish local authority included £4.5m for “resolving outstanding disputes” in a table of estimated costs to the public purse from the project. A public…

J Murphy & Sons has agreed a compensation settlement with four sacked workers following a lengthy dispute. The employees – fitters and welders working on a refurbishment project at Ireland’s giant Rusal Aughinish Alumina refinery – were dismissed in 2022 after a meeting at the plant to discuss the non-payment…

A demolition contractor has been fined £60,000 after a labourer was hit by masonry in an incident that left him “lucky to be alive”. MAC Demolition, the firm contracted to carry out the works, was fined over the incident, which took place in Kilburn, north-west London, last year. The west-London…

A building owner found guilty of missing a deadline to remove unsafe cladding has been ordered to pay a total of £60,000. Chaplair Limited was successfully prosecuted on 18 October by Newham Council over delays in remediating a building in East London. On Tuesday (31 October) the company was handed…

Two demolition contractors fined £22m in the sector’s cover-bidding scandal are set for an April tribunal showdown with competition regulators. In March, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) fined Keltbray, Squibb Group and eight other firms, after finding they had colluded on prices through illegal cartel agreements when submitting bids in…