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R v BRISTOL MAGISTRATES' COURT (DEFENDANT) HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE (INTERESTED PARTY), EX PARTE JUNTTAN OY (A COMPANY) (2002)

PUBLISHED March 19, 2002
SHARE

[2002] EWHC 566 (Admin)

It was inappropriate and wrong for the Health and Safety Executive to prosecute under s.6 Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 when there was an offence under the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 1992 SI 1992/3037 covering exactly the same ground in different language and imposing a different penalty. * Leave to appeal to the House of Lords granted.

DC (Wright J, Lord Woolf of Barnes LCJ)

19/03/2002

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