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Re:Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whis... by M2Ys4U on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:17AM (#38968182)
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.

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Re:Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whis... by scott_w on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:46AM (#38968579)
It'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.
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