Law 2101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Strip Search, High Standard Manufacturing Company, Private Prosecution
18 Dec 2017
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Most responsibility rests largely with the police. Most commence with a complain form a member of the public, but police are sometimes proactive: consensual crimes: all parties to the crime are happy to engage in the activity. Questions about appropriate police powers and activities. Drugs and prostitution: generally, it is the police who decide whether or not to lay charges (based on reasonable ground to believe that the suspect has committed an offence) Wishes of victims can be considered, but don"t determine. Private prosecution are rare =subject to public control. Some cases where victim is not interested in pressing charges, and their wishes contemplated. Crowns are quasi-judicial officers whose task it to achieve justice, not obtain a conviction: although they are frequently the same. Crown screen cases and prosecute only those cases that are in the public interest and for which there is a reasonable prospect of conviction: may not be very good evidence.
