Comment by amiga386

Firstly, no, people do expect big business to act legally. Businesses should not "lie and do all kinds of shady things", and it's up to regulators (and those they harm, using the courts) to hold them to account.

Secondly, I don't think you understand the situation if you talk about the "prosecutors conduct". The Post Office itself - a private company (owned by the government at arms length) - was the entity doing the prosecuting. These were private prosecutions.

You're hearing it right. The aggrieved party is also the prosecutor, in the criminal courts. They are not a claimant in the civil courts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution#England_an...

The Crown Prosecution Service (who work with the police, act for the government and prosecute most criminal cases in England and Wales) were not involved. In fact, much of the criticism of the CPS in the Post Office scandal is that they could have been involved; they had the statutory right to take over a prosecution, and if appropriate, discontinue it due to lack of evidence. But they did not intervene.