Times change, but there are still plenty of people who think that a little more hymn-singing and a little less sex on stage would be a good thing; and they aren't all echoing Mary Whitehouse, who attempted to bring a private prosecution against director Michael Bogdanov over a simulated anal-rape scene in Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain at the National Theatre.
Section 10 requires the authorisation of any prosecution by the director of the appropriate prosecution agency before a case can go ahead; this is a shift from the old regime, which required the consent of the Attorney General for England and Wales.
Dominic Grieve will discuss the unsuccessful prosecutions with the director of public prosecutions, Alison Saunders, who has strongly defended the CPS against allegations that there was not enough evidence to bring a case against Evans, a senior Conservative MP.
It says that the Crown Prosecution Service now "finds itself in the uncomfortable position of pursuing a prosecution that its director openly deems not in the public interest".
And when Howard Brenton's The Romans in Britain in 1980 provoked Mary Whitehouse into launching a private prosecution against its director, Michael Bogdanov, Hall stood both by the play and its interpreters.
It avoided saying that any minister who issues a shoot-down order would be subject to criminal prosecution, notes Dietrich Murswiek, director of the Institute of Public Law at Freiburg University.What Mr Jung and Mr Schäuble are really trying to do, their critics fear, is to replace Germany's "legal state" with a "preventive state".
A spokesperson for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority – the equivalent of Britain's Crown Prosecution Service, whose director has the added power of being able to cancel criminal proceedings – insisted that the charge had been reinstated on 4 February, 10 days before Reeva Steenkamp was killed.
"This case sends a warning that engaging in insider trading from abroad, or using multiple offshore accounts that mask the trader's identity, will not protect the trader from detection and prosecution," said Richard H. Walker, director of the S.E.C.'s enforcement division.
Lucy Boord, for the prosecution, told the hearing the director of public prosecutions would concede Walsh was mentally incompetent at the time.
Before becoming the director of prosecutions, Mr. Simelane served as the director general of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development.
While in that position, Mr. Simelane was criticized for interfering with the director of prosecutions at the time, Vusi Pikoli.
