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Six recruitment agencies fined £39m for price-fixing

2009-09-30T09:35:00Z

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

2009-09-28T17:49:00Z

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

2009-09-28T08:40:00Z

Bridge contractor pleads guilty to charges of corruption in Jamaica, Ghana and Iraq

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Clients set to blacklist cover-pricing contractors

2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

£1.2bn consortium could drop OFT firms from deals as councils plan compensation claims

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OFT: councils can sue guilty contractors

2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

Watchdog says legal action and blacklisting would be 'understandable'

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So crazy it might be true

2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

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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Take the fifth: Liability for design mistakes

2009-09-25T00:00:00Z

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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Locals launch Wigan BSF legal challenge

2009-09-24T12:59:00Z

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?

2009-09-22T16:55:00Z

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'

2009-09-22T13:37:00Z

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

2009-09-22T13:02:00Z

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

2009-09-22T12:28:00Z

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

2009-09-22T11:45:00Z

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

2009-09-22T08:42:00Z

Contractor says it did not gain financially from practice of cover pricing

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Kier suffers £18m OFT fine

2009-09-22T07:45:00Z

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

2009-09-22T07:25:00Z

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

2009-09-22T07:10:00Z

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

2009-09-18T16:07:00Z

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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Unlimited liability time on cards

2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

Contractors could be left with huge bills and no insurance, if a proposed law is passed

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Westfield fit-out dispute: An everyday story of building folk

2009-09-18T00:00:00Z

This shopfitting dispute sounds hair-raising, but it is really nothing out of the ordinary. That’s because people who work in construction are like everyone else: they mess up