By Sir Bob Neill2021-03-04T09:13:00+00:00 The current system for funding of private prosecutions is unfair. The Justice Committee concluded as much when we produced our report, Private prosecutions: safeguardslast October. And the government agrees with that conclusion in the response we are publishing today, as well as pledging changes to the way that private prosecutions are funded. Sir Bob Neill I am delighted that the government has decided to support one of our recommendations and, crucially, has given a commitment to legislate. Our inquiry into private prosecutions was prompted by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. The Commission wrote to us after it had referred a record number of convictions, all stemming from prosecutions brought by the Post Office, to the courts. We examined how private prosecutions were working in England and Wales. Overall, we concluded that private prosecutions play an important role and that the existing safeguards generally work well.