Safestyle fails to get injunction against Safeglaze, fined over sales tactics

Nevertheless, the court upheld a number of injunctive orders previously made preventing Safeglaze and certain named individuals from undertaking various actions.

The court also made an order preventing Safeglaze from using Safestyle's name or logo. Those orders have been made on an interim basis, pending further order or final order of the court, and the court ruled that Safestyle will be entitled to seek a proportion of its legal costs in obtaining those orders from its competitor.

On Monday, Safestyle - which has issued three profit warnings so far this year - was fined £120,000 for the use of aggressive sales techniques.

Sheffield Crown Court said the company's employees has used a number of "unlawful business practices" to put pressure on customers.

Prosecutor Ayesha Smart said: "These improper business practices were not limited to a small geographical area or just one rogue salesman but were repeated across the country and repeated over a period of around 17 months.

"In other words, systems failures allowed these offences to occur in either the recruitment, training, employment practices, supervision and/or monitoring of those who worked for [Safestyle UK]."

At 1100 BST, the shares were up 4.8% to 36.88p.