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Crown Prosecution Service

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Crown Prosecution Service
n
(Law) (in England and Wales) an independent prosecuting body, established in 1986, that decides whether cases brought by the police should go to the courts: headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions Compare procurator fiscal Abbreviation CPS


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But the Crown Prosecution Service on January 12 decided to drop the case.
Instead, it has further fed suspicions that the police and the Crown Prosecution Service are not up to the job of investigating terrorists," the newspaper editorialized, concluding that "A terrible miscarriage [of justice] has been avoided.
He has been joined by the Chief Rabbi and the secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain in condemning the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service.
 
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