Jack Straw has said that "the Attorney General will cease to have any power to give directions to prosecutors in individual cases, save in certain exceptional cases which give rise to issues of national security", in proposed constitutional reforms.
This would legitimise any future meddling in cases like the abandoned BAE investigation, described by The Corner House/CAAT's successful judicial review as unlawful.
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