Buchanan v Osborne

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1919
• Date: 01 January 1919
• Court: King's Bench Division (Ireland)

K. B. D.,

William Buchanan

Complainant

John Osborne

Defendant

Workman prosecutor - Proper complainant - Sections 4 (1) (2), 7, 17.

A workman employed in agriculture, being paid a less rate of wages than that fixed by the Corn Production Act, 1917 (7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 46), s. 4, issued a summons against his employer for arrears, and the justices dismissed the same without prejudice, on the ground that the workman should under s. 7 have complained to the Agricultural Wages Board, by whom the proceedings under the Act should have been brought:—Held, reversing the justices, that the workman was a proper complainant.