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Carillion: move to disqualify directors signals UK authorities getting tougher on 'corporate wrongdoing'

  • Written by John Tribe, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
Carillion: move to disqualify directors signals UK authorities getting tougher on 'corporate wrongdoing'Dead and buried. Joe Giddens/PA Archive

It was a dramatic end for government super-contractor Carillion when it crashed into insolvent liquidation in January 2018. Part-completed road projects, unfinished hospital buildings and disruption to hospital cleaning and catering heralded the end of this self-styled “integrated support services...