The legal framework for the FSA can be found here (http://www.fsa.gov.uk/about/who/accountability/legal) but for a complete an utter shambles of lack of accountability and prosecutorial incompetence read, Dial M for Murdoch. The book explains how industrial scale law breaking was 'overlooked' by the Met and CPS but what it doesn't explain is the foul stink of Operation Yew tree.