All Legal articles – Page 134
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Six recruitment agencies fined £39m for price-fixing
OFT gives two firms immunity for providing information on cartel guilty of collective boycotting and fixing fee rates
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Hundreds of tower blocks not fire checked
BBC investigation after Lakanal House tragedy reveals councils committing criminal offence of failing to carry out fire risk assessments
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Mabey & Johnson guilty of overseas corruption
Bridge contractor pleads guilty to charges of corruption in Jamaica, Ghana and Iraq
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Take the fifth: Liability for design mistakes
If you’re an architect, and you suddenly realise that you’ve made a mistake, do you have a duty to tell your client about it? Well, that all depends
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So crazy it might be true
We’re so conditioned to looking at the world in a particular way we stop thinking about it. But what if it is, in fact, quite wrong? And what could prompt us to realise it is?
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OFT: councils can sue guilty contractors
Watchdog says legal action and blacklisting would be 'understandable'
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Clients set to blacklist cover-pricing contractors
£1.2bn consortium could drop OFT firms from deals as councils plan compensation claims
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Locals launch Wigan BSF legal challenge
Opponents to new 'super school' scheme want land to be ringfenced for community use
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Is it still cover pricing without the phone call?
The OFT has outlawed cover pricing, but that won’t stop firms putting in high bids so they lose contracts they can’t cope with
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OFT: 'Councils are free to sue'
Director in charge of competition body's bid-rigging inquiry says local authorities should feel free to take legal action against guilty firms
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Durkan vows to fight OFT over subdivision's £3.1m fine
Contractor disputes liability for cover-pricing at Concentra, which it sold off in 2007
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OFT says six firms paid or received compensation payments
Fines imposed on Bowmer and Kirkland, Durkan, Herbert Baggaley, Mansell, Thomas Fish and Wildgoose Construction
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Willmott Dixon may appeal against £4.5m OFT fine
Contractor will 'carefully consider' details of decision over cover pricing and grounds for appeal
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Galliford Try set to appeal against OFT fine
Contractor says it did not gain financially from practice of cover pricing
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Kier suffers £18m OFT fine
Contractor slapped with largest bid rigging fine while nine more are hit by penalties of over £5m
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Bid rigging firms hit by massive OFT fines
Contractors found guilty of cover pricing ordered to pay severe fines totalling £130m
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OFT press release: Construction firms fined for illegal bid-rigging
Over 100 firms have been fined a total of £129.5m for bid rigging by the OFT
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Former Alfred McAlpine directors jailed for fraud
Senior construction executives made up about £10m of expected payments, and deceived auditors by showing them stockpiles of slate with the other crates empty
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EU complaint delays water regs by six months
The implementation of water-saving regulations has been delayed for six months after a last-minute EU intervention
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Unlimited liability time on cards
Contractors could be left with huge bills and no insurance, if a proposed law is passed