ABSTRACT

This is a prosecutor’s appeal by case stated from the decision of Mr Recorder Clifton sitting at the Crown Court at Bolton on 25 May 1991. The Recorder allowed the appeal of the respondent against a conviction on 4 December 1990 by justices sitting at the Bolton Magistrates’ Court. The information was laid down on 24 May 1990 by the appellant alleging that the respondent, at the premises of Ingersoll Rand Ltd in Bolton, failed on 21 November 1989 to discharge a duty to which it was subject by s 2(1) and s 2(2) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. ...