A recent case from Suffolk highlights just how seriously lawmakers take electrical safety in rentals. A landlord was fined £7,500 after failing to address 21 electrical defects identified in an Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR), including seven defects classed as ‘immediately dangerous’. The faults left a mother and her four children at risk of electric shock or fire, and the local authority successfully upheld the penalty after the required remedial work wasn'