SUPPORTING Welsh construction businesses while ensuring new recruits are welcomed into the industry are the key goals of the plan from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) for 2021/22.

Across Britain, £140m of the industry levy will be invested into construction in 2021/22, as funding for employers to train and in business support and services. This investment of 94p out of every pound of the levy that CITB receives – rising to 95p...

There was a reason Alin Cristescu, director of Fin Wood, a flooring contractor based in London’s Ludgate Hill, joined Starling Bank back in March 2020. Here’s his story…
By ADAM BERNSTEIN

ALIN Cristescu, director of Fin Wood, a flooring contractor based in London’s Ludgate Hill, joined Starling Bank back in March 2020 by opening a business account… in just 15 minutes. And, judging by what he told CFJ’s Adam Bernstein, the high street banks only...

SOMETIMES there’s a disconnect between what we’ve seen over the past 31 years of advising and resolving disputes for specialist contractors, and those lucky enough to have never had a disagreement or dispute experience.

I say ‘lucky’ because many flooring contractors will go through their working life without too much contractual hassle, and sometimes that is just a matter of luck. But, for many flooring contractors, and we act for quite a...

Before you act against someone who’s bad-mouthed your business, remember there’s a very fine line between statement of fact and statement of opinion, says Jennifer.

IF a business believes a negative online review has crossed the line and is defamatory, then it’s possible that the person who posted the statement could be forced to pay libel damages. This was recently seen in the headline story of a law firm’s previous client having to pay them...