The director of an Essex construction firm has been disqualified as a director for eight years after taking more than £300,000 in deposits for home improvements that were never completed.

The owner of a former Bedfordshire construction firm has been banned as a company director for 13 years after fraudulently obtaining a £50,000 covid loan.

A former chief executive of collapsed contractor Carillion has been disqualified for eight years.

A man has been banned from being a company director after he dumped 20 tonnes of construction waste contaminated with asbestos on farmland in Northumberland.

Two construction businessmen have been banned from running a company for a total of 16 years after breaching the rules of the Bounce Back Loan scheme.

Two of Carillion’s former finance chiefs have been banned from being directors for over a decade. But what does a disqualification mean practically? Keystone Law’s Cory Bebb explains.