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Assuming that you have a proper child seat of approved design, properly fitted, then you were entirely legal and the policeman had no business to stop you. the Telegraph case is not a good precedent because you can't tell whether the seat used was an approved design or not - maybe it was but it lacked the footrests and covering it with duct tape wodl have disguised the product to the point that it may have looked like a cobble-up - indeed perhaps that is precisely what it was, otherwise why did the dad accept the conviction?
To give the copper the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he was just concerned following the accident in Goldhawk Rd only yesterday (reported in the Standard) where a motor-scooter rider was apparently badly hurt and airlifted to hospital. Meddlesome perhaps, but not necessarily malicious.
Probably best to make any complaint low-key.