Using Private Prosecutions To Tackle Counterfeit Drugs

As rights holders, the protection of your brand and IP are of paramount importance. 

Individuals and organised crime groups that would target your work doubtless weigh up the prospects of success against the chances of being detected and, thereafter, the consequences that will befall them if they do get caught. 

They will be aware of the much-publicised reduction in policing and prosecutorial budgets, and likely will assume that the risk of prosecution – and therefore of imprisonment, and a confiscation order – is one they can live with. But such a calculation fails to take into account the possibility that the victim company may instead elect to bring its own criminal case via a private prosecution.