Keywords: health and safety, Card Factory, Joyce Dovey, Sportswift, Dudley Council,

Card retailer culpable for pensioner's fall

Sasha Wood | Prosecutions and Claims |
01.10.2008

A greetings card retailer has been fined £15,000 after an elderly woman tripped over a box in an aisle and fractured her thigh.

Joyce Dovey was visiting the Card Factory in Dudley when she fell over a card-box that dislodged from its display area. In court, the prosecution argued that ...

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