Where a defendant in a speeding prosecution adduces unchallenged evidence that their own speedometer was certified as accurate and conflicting with the police instrument reading, and neither instrument can be shown to be wrong, the prosecution cannot prove the offence beyond reasonable doubt. The common law presumption of accuracy of scientific instruments is displaced by positive conflicting evidence of accuracy from another certified instrument.
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