| Accused |
Court |
Offence(s) |
Result |
Date of Hearing |
| Aberdeen
Building Contractor |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
False Claims As To
Scottish Building Employers Federation Membership
|
Fined
£300
Trade Descriptions Act 1968 |
19th
October 2004 |
| Shop
Proprietor |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
Sale of R18 video work, possession of R18 and unclassified video works
(R18 - To be
supplied only in licensed sex shops to adults of not less than 18
years.)
|
Fined
£5000
Video Recordings Act 1984 |
13th
October 2004 |
| Motor
Vehicle Repairer |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
Consumer
stipulated authentic parts to be fitted to his motor vehicle, the
vehicle repairer fitted non-authentic replicas.
|
Fined 2 x
£150
Trade Descriptions Act 1968 |
4th
December 2003 |
| Shop
Proprietor |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
Posssession of 600 R18 and unclassified video works.
(R18 - To be
supplied only in licensed sex shops to adults of not less than 18
years.)
|
Fined
£1000
Video Recordings Act 1984 |
23rd July
2003 |
| Moray man |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
A trader at a car boot sale was
convicted of selling counterfeit goods.
After a Rangers football top that was sold to our officers was
confirmed as fake a further 82 counterfeit items were seized.
Brand names featured included Nike, Burberry, Celtic, Firetrap and
Diesel.
|
Fined £250 |
15th July 2003 |
| Shop
Proprietor |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
A
Sex Shop owner who illegally sold the male impotency drug Viagra
was caught after officers from the Trading Standards Service and
the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) began investigating the shop
last year.
|
Fined £200 |
19th
February 2003 |
| Aberdeen man |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
An Aberdeen man who had dealt in
second-hand cars and other goods for a number of years, without a
second-hand dealer’s licence and without disclosing that the
goods were being sold in the course of a business, appeared in
court denying that he was a trader. He maintained that his
"trading" was just a hobby.
Evidence led by the Crown showed that he had advertised a
number of cars since January 2000, and over 200 advertisements
were produced which had been published between April and July
2001, none of which indicated "trade" status.
A third charge related to the possession for sale of a
"dangerous product", a motor vehicle which had been
found to have three safety defects, and was the subject of a
Prohibition Notice issued by a Vehicle Examiner.
After trial, the accused was convicted on all three charges.
The Sheriff deferred sentence for 9 months and ordered the accused
"to be of good behaviour".
|
Sentence deferred 9 months.
Civic Government (Scotland) Act
Fair Trading Act
General Product Safety Regulations. |
14th
October 2002. |
| Aberdeen
Motor Dealer |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
A major Aberdeen car
dealer pled guilty to one charge of misdescribing a Ford Focus
motor car to a couple on the 5th July 2000, contrary to the Trade
Descriptions Act 1968.
|
Fined £1000
Trade Descriptions Act 1968. |
12th Sept 2002 |
| Aberdeen
Businessman |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
An Aberdeen businessman caught with unclassified pornographic videos in his
shop admitted two charges
under the Video Recordings Act.
Officers went to buy a video and purchased one for £27.99. On examination it
was found to contain pornographic scenes and checks with the British Board for
Classification showed it wasn't classified for release in the UK.
Two days later, two other officers returned to the shop and saw similar video
tapes on the top shelf. These were seized and inquiries showed that 31 videos
were not classified.
Fining him £200 on the first charge and £400 on the second charge, Sheriff
Alexander Jessop told him: "This was a fairly serious breach of the Video
Recordings Act and you have to accept responsibility."
|
Fined £400
& £200
Video Recordings Act. |
March 2002 |
| Major
Furniture Retailer |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
A major furniture retailer was fined over phantom
price cuts at its Aberdeen store.
Faced with five charges under the
Consumer Protection Act it admitted three charges relating to
incidents on December 28th 2000, at the firms city outlet or in newspaper adverts.
The company had claimed customers could save between £600 and £1.099.
But in two instances the goods had never been offered for sale at the
higher price.
In a third charge the company had stated a special price available only
on New Year's Day could lead to a £600 saving. But the goods had been for
sale four days earlier at the reduced price.
|
Fined
£1350
Consumer Protection Act. |
January
2002 |
| Mother
& Son |
Shrewsbury Crown Court |
A mother and son were each jailed for a year after admitting being involved in
producing and selling thousands of pirate music CD's.
The CD's featured music by top artists and were sold by mail order and at
computer fairs. The case was heard by Shrewsbury Crown Court and investigations
started after officers from Aberdeen City Council Consumer Protection Service found
pirate CD's on sale at a computer fair in Aberdeen. |
Trade Descriptions Act, the Trade Marks Act
and the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. |
July 2001 |
| Individual |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
An individual who supplies counterfeit games software and video compact
discs was prosecuted under the Video Recordings Act 1984 with respect to unclassified
video works on compact disc, Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 and Trade Marks Act 1994
, charges were also included with respect to distributing infringing copies of films and copied games software. |
Fined
£1500
Video Recordings Act 1984
Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988 and Trade Marks Act 1994 |
30th April 2001 |
| Aberdeen
Trader |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
A local trader was prosecuted for distributing
computer games on compact disc which were copies of copyright works without the permission
of the copyright owner. |
Fined £200
Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 |
May 2001 |
| Aberdeen
Motor Dealer |
Aberdeen
Sheriff Court |
An Aberdeen motor dealer was fined for giving a misleading savings claim in a newspaper
advertisement following an investigation by this department.
The claimed saving of £6150 was deemed to be misleading in that it represented the
saving against the list price of a new motor vehicle of that type, when
in fact the vehicle they were selling was a one year old example which
had done 12,000 miles.
The comparison was deemed not to be a fair and meaningful one.
|
Fined £750 |
21st May 2001 |
| Aberdeen Based Travel
Company |
Aberdeen Sheriff Court |
An Aberdeen based travel company pled guilty
and were fined £2000, for displaying prices of holidays on cards in the window of their travel agents premises in Aberdeen, which were
misleading. |
Section 20(1) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987, by virtue of Section 21(1)(e).
Fined £2000
|
11 January 2001 |
