Moncao - 5:58 am on Jul 1, 2008 (gmt 0)

"should Tower Hamlets Council be hit with a fine"

If they were notified and did nothing, yes.

Funny. I do not really have much sympathy for the brand name holders in the main. They switched production to 3rd world countries employing 11 year old workers to make extra profit, then the management of the sweat shops ripped them off and now they have a nett loss. I bought a repro from an auction house the other week and sent it back for a refund. EBay spend more time farting around about swords with curved blades over 50 cm long in the UK (the law is "No Samurai Swords" but eBay chose to make a big deal out of it) then they do with repros and other fraud. Serves 'em right. Vive Le France.