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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.
The Prosecution of Offences Act 1908 repealed the section of the 1884 Act that unified the DPP and Treasury Solicitor, giving Matthews an office of his own on his appointment in the same year. [ 7 ] The organisation remained rooted in its Victorian origins, still operating under the 1886 Prosecutions of Offences Regulations, until the ...
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 former defence lawyer, who has been at the helm of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a year, told reporters the work was “particularly important” amid the delays, adding: “They are ...
The office manager of the Hong Kong trade office in London and another man will go on trial in February for allegedly helping Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in the U.K. a judge said Friday.
The Crown Prosecution Service is opposing the appeal bids, claiming the sentences were not “wrong in law”. ... The court was told that the protesters “acted in the knowledge that they would ...
The conviction rate was 86% in the magistrates' courts and 80% in the Crown Court. [ 2 ] The Spending Review undertaken by HM Treasury in 2010 (and revised in 2013) has led to a budget decrease of almost 30% between 2010 and 2014, resulting in a restructure of the organisation and a large number of voluntary redundancies.
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.