Law Officer for Public Benefit in England and Wales (de facto but not yet de jure)
Communique No. 1 dated 19 April 2019 available here (signed but without URL links) or here (unsigned but with URL links)
ISSUE:
The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) in Northern Ireland announced on Thursday 14 March 2019 that Soldier F would be prosecuted on two counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder in relation to events in Derry/Londonderry on 30 January 1972 known as Bloody Sunday.
QUESTION:
The de facto Law Officer for Public Benefit (LawPB) in England and Wales has to determine whether this prosecution is for the Public Benefit from an ‘irenical perspective’, as that term was judicially defined on 9 October 1998, in a charity law case before the Chancery Division of the High Court in London, and affirmed by the Court of Appeal on 28 June 2000.
Note: ‘irenical’ means ‘aiming or aimed at peace’.