Contracts & law

This topic area offers you a set of resources to help you keep up to date with construction contracts and law.

• Enticing - or cover pricing?

  In September 2009, the OFT handed out fines totalling almost £130 million to a number of construction companies in the UK for 'illegal anti-competitive bid-rigging activities' on 199 tenders from 2000 to 2006, mostly in the form of 'cover pricing'. We investigate in this contracts and law article. read more on 'Enticing - or cover pricing?' ...

• Tax and false self-employment in the construction industry

  As many as a million workers are making a false claim to be self-employed, and earning up to £100 a week more than their directly employed colleagues; depriving HM Exchequer of a calculated £350 million a year. This article looks at the recent Treasury consultation, False self-employment in construction: taxation of workers, and its possible implications. read more on 'Tax and false self-employment in the construction industry' ...

• Construction industry corruption

  Just around the corner from the NBS office in Newcastle there is currently an exhibition reflecting the life and times of one-time politician T. Dan Smith, who along with architect John Poulson, was jailed 35 years ago following charges of corruption. Has anything changed in the meantime?  read more on 'Construction industry corruption' ...

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