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PROSECUTION , the See also:procedure by which the See also:law is put in See also:motion to bring an accused See also:person to trial (see CRIMINAL LAW; See also:INDICTMENT; See also:SUMMARY See also:JURISDICTION, and TRIAL). In theory in the See also:United See also:Kingdom the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king is in all criminal offences the prosecutor, because such offences are said to be against his See also:peace, his See also:crown and dignity, but in practice such prosecutions are ordinarily undertaken by the individuals who have suffered from the See also:crime. This is a different procedure from that prevailing in See also:Scotland, See also:European See also:continental countries and the United States, in all of which a public See also:department or officer undertakes the prosecution of offences. A step towards public prosecution was taken in See also:England by the Prosecution of Offences See also:Act (1879), under which an officer called the " Director of Public Prosecutions " was appointed; in 1884 the Prosecution of Offences Act of that See also:year revoked the See also:appointment made under the act of 1879, and constituted the See also:solicitor to the See also:Treasury Director of Public Prosecutions. The Prosecution of Offences Act (1908) separated the two offices again, making the public prosecutor See also:independent of the treasury, but putting him under the See also:control of the See also:Home See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office. The See also:duty of the public prosecutor is to See also:institute, undertake or carry on criminal proceedings in any See also:court and to give See also:advice and assistance to persons concerned in such proceedings. The appointment of such an officer, according to the act of 1908, does not preclude any person from instituting or carrying on criminal proceedings, but the public prosecutor may at any See also:stage undertake the conduct of these proceedings if he thinks See also:fit (s. 2, See also:par. 3)..
A person to be qualified for the See also:post of public prosecutor must be a See also:barrister or solicitor of not less than ten years' See also:standing, and an assistant public prosecutor, who may be appointed under the act of 1908 and who is empowered to do any act or thing which the public prosecutor is required or authorized to do, must be a barrister or solicitor of not less than seven years' standing. See also See also:LORD See also:ADVOCATE.
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