Legal

A trial over alleged fire safety breaches by four firms – including a Morgan Sindall subsidiary – following a huge blaze at a retirement village has collapsed after less than two days. Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) said it was withdrawing its case, which was being heard at Chester…

An employment tribunal has ordered a crane supplier to pay a former employee almost £30,000 for unfair dismissal after the crane he was operating collapsed. The crane operator, named as G Shields in a tribunal judgment released this week, was dismissed by Falcon Tower Crane Services after the jib collapsed…

A cladding company has been fined £225,000 following the death of a worker who fell through a fragile roof while replacing cladding panels. Leslie Bennion, 61, died after falling from a height of 6 metres while working on a roof at Gaerwen Industrial Estate in Anglesey on 24 January 2018.…

Ex-employees of Bowie Construction have been awarded payouts by an employment tribunal. Twelve workers brought the claim against the former groundworks specialist, which went into administration in June 2024, on the basis that it did not hold a formal consultation process. The company ceased trading in March 2024 and the…

A window manufacturing firm in Sheffield has been fined after a 19-year-old worker lost parts of two fingers in a cross-cut saw incident. Ford Windows Ltd was ordered to pay a £100,000 fine plus costs following a hearing at Sheffield Magistrates Court on 28 April, according to the Health and…

A family whose relative died when a crane crashed through the roof of their home have agreed an out of court financial settlement with a housing association and contractor. Former Squibb Group subsidiary PGCS Partnership and Swan Housing Association and its subsidiary Swan Commercial Services were taken to the High…

A construction firm has lost its appeal against penalties imposed on it after failing to enrol staff on an occupational pension scheme. Buildings UK Midlands Ltd’s appeal against fines imposed on it by the Pensions Regulator at the High Court’s first-tier tribunal was dismissed. The court heard that the steel…

Three construction bosses have pleaded guilty to taking part in a £2m bribery scandal in a bid to secure lucrative contracts. Over a four-year period, the men bribed two former E.ON energy company employees in a fraud related to a major Devon housing development in Cranbrook. Director of Bath-based Priddy…

A construction company has been fined after a kitchen fitter was crushed to death by concrete blocks at a site in Gloucestershire. Martin Dunford, 33, was killed on 23 January 2020 while working on a Piper Homes Construction Ltd housing development at Ebrington Rise, near Chipping Campden. An investigation by…

Three people have been arrested as part of a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into alleged £3m bribes linked to a Microsoft data centre project in the Netherlands. The SFO said the individuals were detained for questioning during dawn raids on five properties across London, Kent, Surrey and Somerset on…