[2025] EWCA Crim 1289

The abuse application:

At a hearing some months before the scheduled trial date, the judge heard argument on a number of issues, including an application by all the respondents to stay the proceedings as an abuse of the jurisdiction.

As we have stated, the judge granted that application. The private prosecutors appealed successfully against the judge’s decision. By then, however, the scheduled trial date had been lost. The resumed proceedings have therefore not yet reached a trial.