Hotel Owner Fined For Five Breaches
A Bolton hotel owner has been fined £5,000 and ordered to pay £10,000 costs after pleading guilty to five breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
The prosecution of the owner of the Pack Horse hotel, Subhash Jajoo, followed a complaint about a blocked fire exit at the hotel in December 2008.
Guests Flee Hotel Fire
A hotel company and its manager have been ordered to pay out more than £40,000 after guests and staff took up to 20 minutes to evacuate the building when a fire broke out.
The owner and the general manager of Park Hotel, in Leicester, both pleaded guilty to ten breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Leicester Magistrates Court on 21 May.
A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his crane jib hit a 20,000 volt power cable.
A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his crane jib hit a 20,000 volt power cable.
Northumberland County Council was fined after a crane jib hit a 20,000 volt power cable. A fine of more than £13,000 has been handed to Northumberland County Council after a crane jib hit a 20,000 volt power cable and risked worker safety.
Asylum centre fined £10,000
A company running a hostel for asylum seekers has been ordered to pay more than £10,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to two offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Angel Services (UK) Ltd was convicted of failing to review and keep up to date a fire risk assessment for the Angel Lodge hostel in Wakefield, and failing to maintain the detection and alarm system.
Wakefield Magistrates Court heard that the only way to raise the alarm at the hostel would have been to shout ‘fire’, but many of the residents did not speak English. Prosecuting, Sarah Dimmock of West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said the maintenance manager at hostel had told the company about a fault in the detection and alarm system on eight separate occasions.
£3,000 penalty for gas safety failure
A court fine was handed down recently after a caravan at a site in Cornwall was rented out without gas safety certificates.
The site’s owner, Shirley Cooper, received a two year conditional discharge at Bodmin Magistrates’ Court and ordered to pay £3,000 costs after failing to ensure gas appliances in the caravan were in a safe condition.
Building managers fined £100,000 after failing to act on fire risk assessment
The managing agent of a block of flats in London has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay almost £13,000 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety law.
Douglas and Gordon Ltd pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Southwark crown court on 29 June. The leasehold owner of the premises in Gloucester Terrace, Paddington, Atomlynn Ltd, was fined £33,000 after pleading guilty to one offence under the Order and ordered to pay costs of £6,440.
Failure to service gas appliances “totally unacceptable”
Landlords have been reminded that failure to properly service the gas appliances in their rental homes is “totally unacceptable”.
Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector Stephen Manley said poorly maintained boilers and radiators can put tenants’ lives at risk.
He issued the warning after a landlord from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire was fined for breaching laws on gas safety.
£4,000 fine for building breaches landlord
A landlord found guilty of breaching the Building Act 1984 had also failed to comply with a number of fire safety regulations. Javid Iqbal had converted the upstairs of a public house into flats without applying for consent.
Appearing at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on 19 April, he was fined £3,350 and ordered to pay £899 in costs as well as a £15 victim surcharge. Read more →
Company fined for supplying unsafe plug-in adapter
On 4 April 2011, at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, Digibuys Limited (based at 1000 North Circular Road, in Brent, London) pleaded guilty to one offence under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 of supplying the unsafe adapter which failed to comply with the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994.
The device was sold for charging an iPod from a domestic mains socket. The company was fined £500 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £835, in a prosecution brought by Dorset County Council’s Trading Standards Service. Read more →
Landlord fined 5,000 over faulty radiator
An 82 year old landlord has been fined £5,000 for supplying her tenant a faulty radiator which led to her death. The landlord who lives in Cornwall inherited the property in 1980 but had let the property as a holiday home until 2007. Trading Standards officers prosecuted Hilary Thompson following the tragic death by electrocution of Thirza Whittal.
Mrs Whittal died just days after she moved into the village with her husband. The property was let on a short hold tenancy agreement and was let furnished. “It was supplied furnished so the electrical appliances should have been safe” said prosecuter Emma Northey.
