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Stephen Lindsay Parkinson (born 15 June 1957) is an English solicitor and former barrister, [1] who has been the Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales) (DPP) and head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) since November 2023.
Mr Parkinson, who has been in post as head of the CPS for a year, said: “Our figure for the crown court backlog is a caseload of 82,000 and that is 85% above pre-Covid. So a very, very ...
The DPP was responsible for the prosecution of only a small number of major cases until 1986 when responsibility for prosecutions was transferred to a new Crown Prosecution Service with the DPP as its head. The Director is appointed by the Attorney General for England and Wales. The current DPP, since November 2023, is Stephen Parkinson. [7]
The County and Borough Police Act 1856 allowed the Home Office to ask the Treasury Solicitor's Department to take on cases of particular importance, but this left many cases falling through the net. As a result, the Prosecution of Offences Act 1879 was passed, which created a Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to advise the police and ...
Victims are facing waits of between two and five years to see a case go to trial, and Mr Parkinson told MPs earlier in the week that staff had heard of court listings now running into 2027.
The evidence must be regularly assessed to ensure that the charge is still appropriate and that continued objection to bail is justified. The Full Code Test must be applied as soon as the anticipated further evidence or material is received and, in any event, in Crown Court cases, usually before the formal service of the prosecution case. [17]
Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd was a UK group legal action taken by 555 subpostmasters against Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, the state-owned post office company. It was heard by Justice Fraser in the High Court between 2017 and 2019.
Sir Nicholas Mostyn argued that because people with the disease are not terminally ill, they would not be covered by any change to the law.