At around 10am on 26th September 1969, old age pensioner Thomas Coane stepped into the Tesco Supermarket at 42 Witton Street, Northwich and, in doing so, became the source of arcane legal trivia.
It was Mr Coane’s quibbling over the advertised price of Radiant washing powder that eventually found itself before the House of Lords in the form of Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass [1972] AC 153 – the case which has loomed large over the law of corporate criminal liability ever since.