An Oxfordshire landscaping boss, who ignored his director ban and left £300,000 in unpaid tax across two companies, has been banned from running companies for 12 years.

Increased regulatory scrutiny of higher risk buildings is bringing construction management responsibilities into sharper focus.

A new Supreme Court ruling has clarified when contractors can terminate for repeated late payment under standard JCT contracts, tightening the rules around how repeated payment defaults should be handled.

While the construction industry faces ongoing skills shortages, proposed changes to current settlement rules could add to the challenges employers must navigate.

After a year of major shifts across construction, the industry now turns its attention to the trends poised to define 2026.

A roofer has been sentenced after failing to comply with requests for information from a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector.

More than twice the number of employers have been banned from sponsoring foreign workers in the first year of this government compared to the year before, according to new figures.

Construction dispute resolution is poised to be transformed by AI, though take-up is uneven and there is risk of a technology gap between big and small firms.

What does ‘acting in good faith’ mean? ‘Good faith’ does not possess a single legal definition in English law and its meaning is often influenced by the specific context. However,…

In the latest twist to higher-risk building confusion, the Upper Tribunal has regretted that the First Tier Tribunal spent time debating an issue it has no jurisdiction over. Simon Lewis and Michelle Essen explains what happened.

The question: Help – I have received a (wrong) adjudication award against my construction company as a result of a dispute over costs resulting from delays to cladding remediation on…

Tim Hillier and Olivia Jenkins explore the impact of the landmark building safety judgment in URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd.

New regulations now force qualifying companies to report on various aspects of how they deal with retentions. Michelle Essen and James Cooper explain.

This month’s contract clinic question comes from a main contractor worried about a data centre project where the client wants to put in a clause on climate events. Peter Vinden looks at this growing area of risk

A High Court judge has handed down a ruling confirming that building safety disputes between housebuilders and contractors can be heard by the adjudicator instead of going to arbitration, potentially relieving the courts’ log.

Charlotte Bloomfield explains what rights employees have when a company goes into an administration. 

As another transformative year comes to an end for construction, Womble Bond Dickinson’s lawyers review the industry’s major legal changes in 2024 – and what the sector should expect for 2025.

Helen Stuart and Alexandra White review the first judgment on building liability orders – a new route for suing bodies associated to those involved in the defective design and construction of buildings under the Building Safety Act.