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Recommendation 2
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Acknowledged
Paragraph: 28
It is a strength of the current system that it enables corporate victims of crime...
Conclusion
It is a strength of the current system that it enables corporate victims of crime to pursue justice when public authorities decline to intervene. The lack of a prosecution can represent injustice just as much as a prosecution wrongly brought. However, in a modern criminal justice system whether an offence is prosecuted or not should not depend on whether the victim has the financial resources to conduct a prosecution.
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The government agrees that private prosecutions brought by victims, whether corporate or individual, still play a valuable role when public authorities cannot prosecute every worthy offence.
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Paragraph Reference:
28
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government · verbatim extract
Acknowledged
We agree that since not every offence worthy of prosecution can be prosecuted by the CPS, SFO or other appropriate public authority, there are circumstances where prosecutions brought by victims of crime themselves (whether corporate or individual) still have a valuable part to play.
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