Recycling sacks issued by Milton Keynes Council found their way onto a Malaysian refuse tip through misuse rather than any deliberate act by the council or its contractors, an independent audit has found.

Dacorum Borough Council has been fined £100,000 for exposing seven grounds maintenance workers to Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS), caused by excessive use of power tools.

More than 46% of 1,922 letting agents inspected in the 15 months up to June 2019 by local council trading standards officers were non-compliant with either the Consumer Rights Act and/or the legislation on redress scheme membership, London Trading Standards (LTS) has revealed.

A case brought by the National Trading Standards Regional Investigation Team (East Midlands), which is hosted by Nottinghamshire County Council, has seen five individuals sentenced over energy tariff refund fraud.

Oxford City Council says it has shut down 21 ‘beds in sheds’ and served 31 enforcement notices since January 2018 when it received government funding to tackle the issue.

A defendant convicted of defrauding the electrical waste recycling industry has been sentenced to prison for a further eight years after he failed to meet a £1.3m confiscation order.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is to procure legal advice and advocacy services in respect of corporate and operational matters relating to its functions.

The Residential Landlords Association has claimed that Coventry Council’s landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful and could breach European law.

The victims of two plumbing companies who defrauded their clients have been fully compensated for their financial losses, after Southampton City Council prosecuted the individuals involved.

A commercial property consultancy has been fined £1.3m after it was prosecuted by Wolverhampton City Council over the death of a 29-year-old woman during ‘Storm Doris’ in February 2017.

Costs have been awarded against North Yorkshire County Council in a case over the prosecution of ticket resellers, despite a judge saying she was reluctant to do so.

The Government is to set up a task force to improve consistency of enforcement against Blue Badge fraud and help councils tackle misuse.

Some local authorities are failing to meet their legal responsibilities to ensure food businesses comply with the law, the National Audit Office has said this month.

A man prosecuted by Bristol City Council for letting people believe they were donating money to charity has been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court to five months’ imprisonment following a guilty plea.

The London Borough of Brent has successfully appealed to the High Court against a planning inspector’s ‘out-of-time’ revocation of an enforcement notice against a school providing parking spaces for Wembley stadium events because the inspector failed to consider the council's argument that a material change of use of the land through intensification had occurred in 2016.

A solicitor has been hit with a £500,000 confiscation order for repeatedly disregarding warnings from Ealing Council to stop using a home as the office for his legal practice.

Some 60% of retailers in certain areas are breaking the law on underage knife sales, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

Councils have called for a review of sentencing guidelines for waste and fly-tipping offences, amid an almost 40% rise in incidents since 2012.

The land and property arm of the Greater London Authority has been fined £250,000 after an advertising hoarding collapsed onto a man in front of his wife and two children.

A couple who bought a property containing nine flats at auction despite being aware that an enforcement notice required its demolition have been ordered to pay a total of £136,240 for continuing to rent it out.

The Environment Agency has blocked access to an illegal waste site, using new legal powers for the first time.

Southwark Council has secured a confiscation order for more than £1.1m against a landlord who turned three flats in London Bridge into around 20 studios and bedsits.

Four ticket resellers have won a case in the First-Tier Tribunal, which ruled that North Yorkshire County Council took action out of time.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has published guidance for local authorities on how to crack down on rogue landlords.

Environmental law charity ClientEarth has warned 38 local authorities in England and Wales of the legal risk of inaction on air pollution.

The Environment Agency has secured a £200,000 confiscation order against a waste operator over environmental offences at sites he operated with his brother in Swindon.

A national sofa retailer, SCS, has been fined £6,000 after it admitted misleading customers over claimed savings in a ‘Black Friday’ sale.

Hull City Council has seen off a challenge to its private sector housing enforcement policy brought by a local landlords’ association.