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Anyone can bring a private prosecution (in England and Wales, at least. Scotland and Northern Ireland have different legal systems). The Crown Prosecution Serv
by M2Ys4U 3y ago
Anyone can bring a private prosecution (in England and Wales, at least. Scotland and Northern Ireland have different legal systems).
The Crown Prosecution Service can take over any prosecution at the discretion of the Director of Public Prosecutions, but they didn't seem to know (and/or care) what the Post Office were doing.
- scott_w 3y agoIt's likely they won't step in if the organisation in question has the resources to handle prosecutions at the required scale. The CPS did prosecute some cases but it's hard to blame them since they were being lied to by the Post Office investigators.