At the hearing, District Judge Childs told Mr Fisher: “What you’re saying is the behaviour amounts to a breach of your quiet enjoyment of the property.”
The judge asked Mr Fisher if he accepted that the council needed to do the work to ensure the building was up to fire safety standards.
Mr Fisher replied that some aspects of the building were 50 years out of date and would not be allowed under current safety standards.
“The entire building is not up to the current regime,” he explained.
“There is no legal requirement to put in sprinklers. If it was a new building, it would be.
“It would have been the case in 2010 when they put the Grenfell cladding on.”
Sheffield Council had to remove unsafe cladding from the Hanover block when checks were made following the Grenfell tragedy.
Gary Willock, barrister acting for the council, asked Judge Childs to adjourn the hearing so council documents he believed to be relevant to the case could be produced.
He said the documents were a council fire risk assessment, a building control application to enable the work to take place on the flats and a fire risk strategy in relation to the works.
Mr Willock said: “In my view, they are essential for the court to look at and consider before the case can be dealt with effectively.”
The judge gave Sheffield Council until 9 January to produce the documents, and a further week to provide explanatory notes.
Mr Fisher, who is representing himself, would be given two weeks to put together any response, the court was told.
The judge said: “I do implore both parties to get around a table.”