Dragging on for more than a year, the final curtain looks set to close on the Bibit-Chandra drama. The Prosecution Service has decided to drop the prosecution in the public interest through the setting-aside mechanism.

Deponering refers to the power of the Attorney General to drop a prosecution in the public interest, even if there is sufficient prima facie evidence of a crime. It is similar to the “nolle prosequi” procedure in Anglo-Saxon l