Case
In March 2001, Steve Thoburn, a greengrocer, was convicted at Sunderland Magistrates Court for using weighing apparatus that did not comply with the 1985 Act. He had been warned on two occasions that his apparatus was illegal. Colin Hunt sold fruit and vegetables in Hackney, he displayed his prices by reference to imperial measures and was convicted at Thames Magistrates Court in June 2001. Julian Harman, a greengrocer, and John Dove, a fishmonger, sold their goods by reference to imperial measures only at Camelford market in Cornwall, they were both convicted in August 2001 at Bodmin Magistrates Court. Peter Collins sold fruit and vegetables in Sutton and unlike the other appellants, had not been convicted of an offence. Instead, he was contesting the terms of the market stall licence proposed by the legal authority which required metric measures to be used; Sutton Magistrates Court had rejected his claim.
All five appellants, called the "Metric Martyrs" in the press, contested the decisions against them by way of case stated before the Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division.
Read more about this topic: Thoburn V Sunderland City Council
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