The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Francis Patrick Neill,Baron Neill of Bladen,was a British barrister and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
The Vinerian Scholarship is a scholarship given to the University of Oxford student who "gives the best performance in the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law". Currently,£2,500 is given to the winner of the scholarship,with an additional £950 awarded at the examiners' discretion to a proxime accessit (runner-up).
George Alfred Carman,QC was an English leading barrister during the 1980s and 1990s. In 1979,he successfully defended the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe after he was charged with conspiracy to murder. Carman had been appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) eight years previously. He later appeared in a series of widely publicised criminal cases and libel cases.
David Philip Pannick,Baron Pannick,is a British barrister and a crossbencher in the House of Lords. He practises mainly in the areas of public law and human rights. He has argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom,the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords,the European Court of Justice,and the European Court of Human Rights.
Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority were the set of legal proceedings in the United Kingdom concerning the requested extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden for a "preliminary investigation" into accusations of sexual offences allegedly made in August 2010. Assange left Sweden for the UK in 27 September 2010 and a warrant for his arrest was issued in his absence the same day. He was suspected of rape of a lesser degree,unlawful coercion and multiple cases of sexual molestation. In June 2012,Assange breached bail and sought refuge at Ecuador's Embassy in London and was granted asylum.
Alex Bailin KC is an English barrister specialising in criminal and international law,together with human rights and media law at Matrix Chambers. Bailin is also a legal writer for The Guardian,The Times and The Lawyer,among others.
Tim Owen KC,is an English barrister at Matrix Chambers. His practice spans the fields of fraud/regulatory,criminal,public,human rights,media and information,extradition/MLA,sports,asset recovery,police and civil law.
Edward Hamilton Fitzgerald is a British barrister who specialises in criminal law,public law,and international human rights law. His work against the death penalty has led him to represent criminals such as:Myra Hindley,Mary Bell,Maxine Carr,various IRA prisoners,and Abu Hamza. Fitzgerald is currently the joint head of Doughty Street Chambers.
Jennifer Robinson is an Australian human rights lawyer and barrister with Doughty Street Chambers in London.
Dame Alison Margaret Saunders,is a British barrister and a former Director of Public Prosecutions. She was the first lawyer from within the Crown Prosecution Service and the second woman to hold the appointment. She was also the second holder of this office not to be a Queen's Counsel. She was previously the Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS London. Her term of office ended on 31 October 2018. She is now a Partner at the Magic Circle law firm Linklaters.
Sir Stephen John Irwin,is a retired British judge and barrister. From September 2016 until October 2020,he was a Lord Justice of Appeal. From May 2006 to 2016,he served as a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
Lady Camilla Bingham;born 30 June 1970) is a British barrister.
Helen Mountfield,is a British barrister practising in administrative,human rights,and equality law. She has been Principal of Mansfield College,Oxford since 2018.
Professor Johanne Erica "Jo" Delahunty,is a British barrister,judge,and legal academic. Called to the bar in 1986,she specialises in family law and child protection. She has also been a Recorder since 2009,and was the Gresham Professor of Law from 2016 to 2020.
Prior to the 20th Century,there were few women in law in the United Kingdom. Prior to the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919,women were not permitted to practice law in the United Kingdom. By 1931 there were around 100 female solicitors. The first female-only law partnership was founded in 1933. In 2010,a report by The Lawyer found that 22 percent of partners at the UK's top 100 firms were women;a follow-up report in 2015 found that figure had not changed. Since 2014,a number of large corporate firms of solicitors have set gender diversity targets to increase the percentage of women within their partnerships. By 2019,51% of British solicitors were women.
Mary Rose Gearty is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the High Court since December 2019. She was previously practiced as a barrister involved primarily in criminal trials involving serious offences.
Emma Louise Arbuthnot,Baroness Arbuthnot of Edrom,,known professionally as Mrs Justice Arbuthnot,serves as a High Court judge for England and Wales since 2021.
Dame Christina Caroline Lambert DBE,styled Mrs Justice Lambert is a British High Court judge.
Sir Jeremy Charles Johnson,known in court as Mr Justice Johnson,is a British barrister and justice of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.
