text: import React from "react";
  import { NavLink } from "react-router-dom";
  import img from "../../Images/Animals/private.jpg";
  
  const PrivateProsecutions = () => {
    return (
      <div className="expertise expertise--sub">
        <h2 className="sub-heading">Private Prosecutions</h2>
        <img src={img} alt="Koala" className="expertise__img expertise__img--1" />
        <p className="expertise__text">
          The main prosecuting authority in England and Wales is the Crown
          Prosecution Service (CPS). In Scotland, it is the Prosecutor-Fiscal and
          in Northern Ireland the Public Prosecution Service. Each of these
          organisations bring prosecutions on behalf of the state. They are
          independent of the police, who investigate crimes.
        </p>
        <p className="expertise__text">
          Other specialist agencies also prosecute: for example, the Food
          Standards Agency, the Health & Safety Executive (UK) and local Trading
          Standards (consumer issues, including misleading fur labelling). So do
          local authorities for a range of offences.
        </p>
        <p className="expertise__text">
          Private prosecutions can be a valuable campaigning tool, especially on
          issues where animal protection organisations have greater expertise than
          the state authorities or may perhaps have conducted an{" "}
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            exact
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            undercover investigation
          </a>{" "}
          revealing inadequate regulation.
        </p>
        <p className="expertise__text">
          A private prosecutor has to persuade a magistrate to issue a summons or
          warrant against the proposed defendant. There must be some evidence
          indicating that an offence has been committed. The Director of Public
          Prosecutions (the head of the CPS) can take over a prosecution, and can
          then discontinue it. In principle, it is possible to{" "}
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            to="/expertise/judicial-review"
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            judicially review
          </a>{" "}
          a decision to discontinue, but in practice that would be difficult
          unless, perhaps, the decision was overtly political.
        </p>
        <p className="expertise__text">
          It is often possible for a private prosecutor to recover at least some
          legal costs, either from central funds or occasionally a convicted
          defendant.
        </p>
        <p className="expertise__text">
          It is important to ensure that private prosecutions are done properly,
          with compelling (admissible) evidence and full disclosure to the
          defendant, and other procedural requirements followed. If not conducted
          properly, there is a risk that the defendant may recover costs from the
          prosecutor. Advocates for Animals can help navigate your way through
          each step of the process.
        </p>
        <p className="expertise__text">
          For more information, please contact info@advocates-for-animals.com
        </p>
  
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      </div>
    );
  };
  
  export default PrivateProsecutions;
  