Committee says legal aid paid out for such cases rose from £360,000 to £12m in five years
Private prosecutions should be subject to more effective safeguards so that defendants receive a fair trial and do not pay excessive costs, MPs have recommended.
Following the scandal over the Post Office’s misguided criminalisation of scores of its sub-postmasters, the justice select committee has warned of the danger where an “alleged victim in a case is also the investigator and the prosecutor”.
