
The
Court of Appeal today gave judgment in
R v Crawley & Ors [2014] EWCA Crim 1028 and ordered that fraud proceedings, brought by the
Financial Conduct Authority, should be resumed. In doing so it overturned the much publicised decision of His Honour Judge Leonard QC, sitting in the Crown Court at Southwark, in which the prosecution had been stayed: see
here (
pdf). The Court of Appeal's decision was delivered by the
President of the Queen's Bench Division and he ended his judgment by calling for the
Ministry of Justice, led by the
Lord Chancellor, and the professions to resolve "the impasse that presently stands in the way of the delivery of justice in the most complex of cases" (para. [58]).
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