Call for Evidence

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.