A pub landlord has pleaded guilty to eight fire safety offences after failing to understand he had become responsible for fire safety when his lease changed. Robert Vincent Ashton of Westbourne Road, Swinton was given an 18-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £500 costs at Manchester City magistrates court on Tuesday 3 July. The offences related to the Duke… read more →
National food retailer Asda Stores Limited has been ordered to pay more than £55,000 in fines and costs for committing serious fire-safety breaches at a store in Berkshire. Appearing at Reading Crown Court on 6 June, the firm pleaded guilty to two charges brought under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. The case had received an earlier hearing in… read more →
The owner of a Manchester fashion store has been fined for several fire safety breaches. Appearing at Bury and Rochdale magistrates court on 17th May, Joel Lever, the owner of Mon Amie Studios in Prestwich, pleaded guilty to seven breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. It followed an inspection of the store in April 2011, which revealed… read more →
The landlord of a Milton Keynes property has been jailed for four months and fined after pleading guilty to fire safety breaches. Lookman Adeyemi, the registered owner of a house in multiple occupation ( HMO ) in the town, was also fined £10,000 at his sentencing hearing at Amersham Law Courts on 29th March. Earlier in the month, Mr Adeyemi… read more →
A London hotel has had to pay more than £260,000 in fines and costs in what is believed to be the first jury trial of a case under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. The Chumleigh Lodge Hotel Limited and its sole director, Michael Wilson, had pleaded not guilty to a total of 12 offences under the Fire Safety… read more →
A Cheshire takeaway has been fined more than £24,000 for a number of breaches to fire safety regulations. The owners of the Buffet City outlet on Newgate Street in Chester were ordered by Chester Magistrates Court to pay a total of £24,067 in fines and court costs after being found guilty of six offences of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety)… read more →
The manager of a house in multiple occupation (HMO) has been ordered to pay more than £20,000 for breaching fire safety provisions of occupancy legislation. Abdul Bashir was the licence holder and manager of a four-storey property in Prince of Wales Road, Norwich. The 53-year-old worked at the Prince of India restaurant on the ground floor and members of staff… read more →
A furniture company has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 after pleading guilty to numerous breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order. Showhouse Furniture Ltd in Newmarket and two of its directors, Edward Babington and Francois Guillambert, pleaded guilty to 12 offences at Bury St Edmunds magistrates court on Thursday 27th October 2011. An investigation following a fire… read more →
Morrisons Supermarkets has been fined £17,500 after a worker fractured her elbow when she slipped at a store in Ipswich. In June 2008, an environmental health officer from Ipswich Borough Council made a routine visit to a Morrisons store in Sproughton Road. She warned the store’s management about a potential slip hazard behind one of the food counters, where smooth… read more →
Two Manchester landlords have been jailed after their properties were deemed to have breached fire safety regulation. Israr Fazal and his son Shahbaz Fazal pleaded guilty to breaching the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and were each sentenced to three months in prison. Both men were also ordered to pay £8,975 costs. The charges related to eight first-floor flats… read more →
