The High Court has ruled that the Cornwall Council is allowed to terminate its outsourcing contract with BT.

The ruling comes after the Council expressed its desire to terminate the contract this June due to the British telecommunications giant’s failure to deliver services properly or on time.

The announcement followed a Strategic Partnership Review released earlier in the year which read, “At present, of the guaranteed new jobs in Cornwall, BT has delivered less than a third of the figure promised and no additional jobs over and above the contractual guarantee, but which were committed to, have been created”.

BT denied any breach of contract and took the issue to court in an attempt to retain the deal, taking the two companies to court earlier in December; however, Mr Justice Knowles ruled that BT “faced problems of its own making and did not provide to the defendants the service it had promised, to the standard it had promised”.

The council intends to issue termination notice before Christmas.

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