R v BAP

Subject Matter

CRIME — Practice — Trial — Defendants charged with offences of supplying or being concerned in supply of water unfit for human consumption — Offences subject to defences that on balance of probabilities defendants acting with “due diligence — Crown Court judge ruling at close of prosecution case defendants having no case to answer — Whether judge having power to entertain submission of no case to answer where burden of proof reversed — Water Industry Act 1991 (c 56), s 70

[2025] EWCA Crim 266; [2025] 2 Cr App R 4; [2025] WLR(D) 155, CA