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• The High Court has quashed convictions recorded against JB & M Motor Haulage, for failing to supply information to the London Waste Regulation Authority under the Control of Pollution Act, after concluding that there was no evidence that the company had been guilty of "fly tipping".
Horseferry Road Magistrates had convicted the Brixtonbased company of seven off
ences of failing to give the authority information it had requested under the provisions of the 1974 Act.
Lord Justice Watkins said the company could not be convicted as charged without the magistrates hearing evidence linking it to illegally dumping waste. There had been no such evidence. That being so, there could be no offence on the part of the company of failing to provide information to the authority with regard to the illegal dumping of waste.