Mehmood Butt v R
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | The Lord Burnett of Maldon |
| Judgment Date | 10 July 2018 |
| Neutral Citation | [2018] EWCA Crim 1617 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Docket Number | Case No: 201705537/A2 |
| Date | 10 July 2018 |
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London Fire Commissioner v Bupa Care Homes (ANS) Ltd
...currently operates. 40 Whilst the Guideline was not directly applicable, there is rightly no criticism of this approach (see R v Butt [2018] EWCA Crim 1617 (“ Butt”) at [23]; R v Sandhu [2017] EWCA Crim 1908 at [21] and 41 The Judge assessed harm as medium, and not high, because the fire ......
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R v Jayne Brown
...relevant guidelines in relation to breaches of fire safety legislation but took into account the decision of this Court in R v Butt [2018] EWCA Crim 1617; [2018] 1 WLR 5391. We shall return to that case in due 11 The Recorder observed that, in accordance with that decision, it can be appr......
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R v St Michael's Hospice Hastings
...submission that there is a low risk of a fire breaking out in a hospice misses the point. As was made clear by this court in R v Butt [2018] EWCA Crim 1617 (a decision after the sentence hearing in this case), in most prosecutions for a breach of the Fire Order, there will be no evidence o......
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R v Dub Catering Ltd
...sentence was passed by HHJ Gledhill in the Crown Court at Oxford on 13 August 2021. The judge noted, by reference to R v Butt [2019] 1 Cr. App. R. (S.) 4, that there are no sentencing guidelines specifically for breaches of fire safety regulations but that the guidelines for health and saf......
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The Guideline Lottery
...of fire safety regulations are not explicitly covered by health and safety Sentencing Guidelines. However, the case of R v Butt [2018] EWCA Crim 1617 offered helpful guidance on the approach to sentencing and Fire is notoriously unpredictable and can spread far from its seat. For this reaso......