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You're generalising by quoting the CPS charging manual but do you have any idea how much it costs to bring a prosecution ? Of course the cost has to be considered relative to the seriousness (you wouldn't, for example, seek to extradite someone to face a charge of shoplifting because the likely...

Part of. Not the only consideration. You sad it was a "waste of taxpayers money" which tends to imply that whatever the crime, the decision to prosecute should be based on how much it will cost. The actual cost of prosecuting something like this is no different than the cost to prosecute a late...

So should all decisions to prosecute be based on how much it will cost to proceed ? Once you start letting the balance sheet decide, justice is dead.