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19.09.16

Soviet dissident fails in trial of meaning against CPS

In Bukovsky v Crown Prosecution Service [2016] EWHC 1926 (QB), a Soviet dissident resident in England, was suing the Crown Prosecution Service (‘CPS’), the principal public prosecuting authority in England and Wales, for libel, misfeasance in public office, and breach of the Human Rights Act concerning a press release announcing that he was to be…