Another route by which cases, often
involving financial services organisations and professionals, are dealt with is of course the regulatory route, which is often unlikely to lead to a prosecution and so will not form part of the collected data in that regard.
The team has also been
involved in a number of important «open justice» challenges to facilitate press reporting of the courts, including leading a group of five media
organisations in successfully challenging an arrangement where the former head of the
Financial Services Authority would otherwise have given evidence in private in the Lloyds Bank shareholder litigation.