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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 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]
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The Prosecution of Offences Act 1908 repealed the section of the 1884 Act that unified the DPP and Treasury Solicitor, giving Matthews an office of his own on his appointment in the same year.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 ...
Director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson said some families viewed taking part in the disorder as a leisure activity. Boy caught in riots not prosecuted after stern telling-off from ...
Stephen Parkinson, Baron Parkinson of Whitley Bay (born 30 June 1983) [1] is a British Conservative member of the House of Lords who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Heritage and Libraries from March 2022 to July 2024.
Renewed Investigations by Scotland Yard in 2011 led to dozens of arrests for activities related to the phone hacking scandal. This list of persons arrested in phone-hacking scandal is a chronological listing of individuals arrested in conjunction with the illegal acquisition of confidential information by employees and other agents of news media companies referred to as the "phone hacking ...
In a statement issued on Friday evening, Lord Hermer KC said: "After careful consideration of independent legal advice and consultation with leading criminal barristers and the Crown Prosecution ...