SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE v EVANS AND OTHERS

[2015] Lloyd's Rep FC Plus 1

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (SITTING AT NEWPORT CROWN COURT)

Before Lord Justice Fulford (Sitting as a judge of the QBD)

Voluntary bill of indictment - Exceptional procedure - Appropriate use of the procedure - Use to correct prosecutorial mistake or change of mind - Use to explore identification of the legal basis for charges - Repeated reformulation of prosecution case - Conspiracy to defraud in which both the object and means unlawful not known to the common law