Member

There are a limited number of offences, including those under the Official Secrets Act, for which Parliament has made statutory provision requiring the Attorney-General’s consent to prosecute in individual cases. In doing so, the law officer acts in a quasi-judicial capacity independently of government and applies the same two-stage test as the code. Consent was given by my predecessor on 3 April 2024. Following that date, no law officer intervened in the case at any stage; it would have been wholly inappropriate for them to do so.