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independent counsel
(as when the Attorney General would face a conflict of interest). The independent counsel was formally called a special prosecutor until 1983.
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Costs
apportioned between the parties in such manner as the Court shall think just, and in default of any special direction are to abide the event. See also County Court Rules, 1936, Ord. XLVII. Cost in Criminal Cases.--The … regulation of the Secretary of State under this Act, appear to the court reasonably sufficient to compensate the prosecutor for the expenses properly incurred by him in carrying on the prosecution, and to compensate any person properly
Assizes Relief Act, 1890
in case of the prisoner being committed on a charge there triable, unless such justices think fit for special reasons otherwise to direct, see (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), s. … charged with offences triable at Quarter Sessions-by which Act justices of the peace are directed to bind over prosecutors to appear at the next practicable Court of Quarter Sessions, in case of the prisoner being committed on
Certiorari
be expressly given by statute, but certiorari always lies unless it be expressly taken away by statute, and special clauses in modern statutes have frequently taken it away. See e.g., (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 262; … examined and 'quashed,' if contrary to law. The writ may be granted either at the instance of the prosecutor or the defendant. A prosecutor was formerly entitled to a writ of certiorari as a matter of right,
Prerogative of mercy
before 1848 was fully explained in a letter to the Home Secretary by the judges who formed the Special Commission before whom Frost and others were tried for high treason in 1839, see Queen v. Frost, (1839) … private accusations of felony) which were not the suit of the King, but of the party injured, the prosecutor might release, but the King could not pardon: 3 Inst. 237. Appeals by wager of battel (see that
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