William Boyce QC and Karen Robinson have written in The Lawyer about their recent experience of private prosecution in the case of Deripaska v Chernukhin and R (on the application of Deripaska) v DPP [2020].
Bill and Karen consider the private prosecutor as the guardian of the public interest and determine that without careful consideration of the public interest test at the outset, some proposed private prosecutions may be susceptible to discontinuance
You can access their article here.
QEB Hollis Whiteman Chambers hosts various articles online with The Lawyer on our Chambers profile which can be accessed here.
William Boyce KC
Karen Robinson