ABSTRACT
When the police have completed their investigations and they believe they have a case to present to court, that case is passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (England and Wales), the Procurator Fiscal (Scotland) or the Director of Public Prosecutions (Northern Ireland). In turn, these prosecuting agencies make their own independent decisions, based on the evidence given to them, as to whether a prosecution is worth while in terms of a likely conviction or whether it is in the ‘public interest’ to prosecute.
