There's either something wrong with my arithmetic, or something really doesn't add up:
The consultation document indicates that the CAA's prosecution "success" rate is 90% (presumably to reassure us that only one in ten will be unjustly punished under the proposed Option 2). However, the courts have seen fit to award the CAA barely 8% of its costs.
The disparity is so great that I smell an attempt to mislead: namely to present as "success" prosecutions in which all but the most trivial of several charges has been dismissed or dropped, in consequence of which the court was unwilling to award costs against the accused.
In order to meet the second of the Gunning principles, and to get a handle on how many people may be unjustly punished under the proposed Option 2, we need to know what percentage of charges (rather than cases) currently considered for prosecution by the CAA are deserted or dismissed.