Professor Emma Kaufman disagrees. In a new article, “The Past and Persistence of Private Prosecution,” published in the ...

Private prosecution shake-up by government after Post Office and SJP scandals - The Criminal Justice System has been rocked ...

Private prosecutors face greater transparency and accountability over unregulated or unlawful activity following a ...

Historically, crime victims played a central role in criminal justice processes through private prosecutions—i.e., the ability of victims to initiate or participate in criminal prosecutions.

After the NPA failed to take forward a matter of assault, AfriForum’s private prosecution team secured a conviction against a ...

So, today’s announcement of major reform to private prosecutions and the Single Justice Procedure (SJP) should be primarily embraced as a major step in the right direction. Successive ...

Lord chancellor Shabana Mahmood says 'recent catastrophic failures in private prosecutions highlight current system is open ...

A rape victim has been given the green light for the first private criminal prosecution in Scotland for more than 40 years. The Scottish Government have approved a legal aid application by Denise ...