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To cut a long answer short, no, the county court is a civil court, perverting or attempting to pervert the course of justice is a criminal offence under the common law. On a theoretical level, you could bring a private prosecution, commenced by laying an information in the magistrates court.

On the basis of the information that you have provided, it is not possible to advise on the merits of such a course of action, ie as to whether you have a case. Anyone can bring a private prosecution but the Crown Prosecution Service have a statutory right to adopt any such prosecution and this can result in their making the decision to continue it themselves or to discontinue it.

As I say, from the information provided it is impossible to say whether there is merit in the case either against the insurance company as an entity or any individuals within the organisation but a private prosecution is likely to be an expensive exercise and they would doubtless utilise all of their resources to fight any conviction. Tread very warily and if you are of mind to throw caution to the wind, get expert advice based on all of the relevant information.

Is this Perverting the course of justice?

Matthew Griffiths

As far as the unpaid work requirement of your Community Order is concerned. Alas, you will not be compensated for that. I am assuming that you were represented both before the Magistrates Court and the Crown Court. If you paid privately for both, then on acquittal by the Crown Court an application should have been made for a Defendants Costs Order. The order would have enabled you to recoup your costs from 'central funds'. These days the amount you get back is restricted to the equivalent rate a solicitor would get under the legal aid rates and thus you would not get all of your money back. The presumption is that the court will make such an order unless they form the view that you 'brought the prosecution on yourself'. I would approach the solicitors who represented you to find out if they did apply for a DCO and if they did, why it was refused.

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