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Wandsworth London Borough v Rashid [2009] EWHC 1844 (Admin) – S 123 MCA - Ss 34 and 158 EPA.

1) amendment to clarify an information should be permitted even if not necessary for conviction.
2) (i) P’s prosecution policy to be applied on facts known to P at the time it makes its decision;
(ii) not an abuse to prosecute merely because an alternative sanction might have been reasonable;
(iii) P not required to go through each option if prosecution was justified.
- the issue is one of Wednesbury reasonableness.
3) P not required to give explanation for rejecting alternative options to prosecuting.

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