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<p>The DPP has regular meetings with the Attorney General about the work of the Crown
Prosecution Service. The CPS makes its prosecution decisions independently. The DPP
is required to seek the AG’s permission before she gives her consent to the prosecution
of certain offences under terrorism legislation. The AG makes those decision in line
with the <em>Protocol between the Attorney General and the Prosecuting Departments</em>,
that is ‘independently of government, applying well established prosecution principles
of evidential sufficiency and public interest.’</p>
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