Call for Evidence
Private prosecutions: safeguards
Terms of reference
The Committee welcomes written evidence on:
- The way in which large organisations conduct private prosecutions;
- The effectiveness of existing safeguards that regulate private prosecutions;
- Alternative legislative, legal and administrative safeguards that could be used to regulate the way in which large organisations use the right to bring private prosecutions;
- Whether the existing investigatory standards and duties of disclosure that apply to private prosecutions are effective;
- The effectiveness of different safeguards in preventing miscarriages of injustice resulting from the right to bring private prosecutions;
- The role of the Crown Prosecution Service in taking over private prosecutions;
- The role of the Attorney General in supervising private prosecutions;
- The role of the courts in private prosecutions; and
- The way in which private prosecutions are regulated in other jurisdictions.
This call for written evidence has now closed.
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