Faxed Prosecutions Are Valid
Rockall v Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
[2007] EWHC 614
QBD
22 March 2007
Weekly Law Reports Summary
Proceedings were instituted under s 17(2) of the Forestry Act 1967 when an information was laid and it was the laying of the information that determined whether time limits had been met. If it could properly be established by inference or otherwise that an information had been transmitted to a magistrates’ court fax machine within time that was sufficient to constitute the laying of an information.