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.
Alexander Charles Carlile,Baron Carlile of Berriew,is a British barrister and crossbench member of the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Montgomeryshire from 1983 to 1997.
Ian Douglas Temby is an Australian barrister. He was the first Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and the first Commissioner of the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption. He conducted the Royal Commission into the Finance Broking Industry in Western Australia in 2001.
Major Sir Thomas Chalmers Hetherington,,better known as Sir Tony Hetherington,was a British barrister. He was Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales from 1977 to 1987,and was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service for the year after it was founded in 1986.
Sir David Calvert-Smith,styled The Hon. Mr Justice Calvert-Smith,is a retired British jurist. He was Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales from 1998 to 2003 and then a High Court judge from 2005 to 2012.
Sir Kenneth Donald John Macdonald,Baron Macdonald of River Glaven,is a British lawyer and politician who served as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of England and Wales from 2003 to 2008. In that office he was head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was previously a recorder and defence barrister. He is a life peer in the House of Lords,where he sits as a crossbencher and was previously a Liberal Democrat. He was Warden of Wadham College,Oxford until 2021.
Red Lion Chambers is a UK set of barristers' chambers,specialising in criminal law,formerly known as 18 Red Lion Court.
R v Paul Chambers,popularly known as the Twitter Joke Trial,was a United Kingdom legal case centred on the conviction of a man under the Communications Act 2003 for posting a joke about destroying an airport on Twitter,a message which police regarded as "menacing". The conviction in the Magistrates' court was widely condemned as a miscarriage of justice,but was upheld on appeal to the Crown Court. Chambers appealed against the Crown Court decision to the High Court,which would ultimately quash the conviction.
John Gordon Cooper KC is a British barrister specialising in human rights and criminal law,and a politician.
The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation is appointed by the Home Secretary and by the Treasury for a renewable three-year term and tasked with reporting to the Home Secretary and to Parliament on the operation of counter-terrorism law in the UK.
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.
Michael Benedict Emmerson CBE KC is a British barrister,specialising in public international law,human rights and humanitarian law,and international criminal law. From 2011 to 2017,he was the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism. Emmerson is currently an Appeals Chamber Judge of the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals sitting on the Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has previously served as Special Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court,and Special Adviser to the Appeals Chamber of the ECCC.
Jeremy Sydney Dein,KC is an English barrister specialising in criminal defence.
Brian Altman KC is an English lawyer. Altman was First Senior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court from 2010 to 2013. Altman is the joint Head of Chambers of 2 Bedford Row,barristers' chambers.
David William Kinloch Anderson,Baron Anderson of Ipswich,is a British barrister and life peer,who was the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation in the United Kingdom between 2011 and 2017. On 8 June 2018 it was announced that he would be introduced to the House of Lords as a cross-bench (non-party) working peer. On the same day he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE),for services to national security and civil liberties,in the Queen's 2018 Birthday Honours.
The Trial:A Murder in the Family is a British television docudrama,produced by Dragonfly Film and television,that first broadcast on Channel 4 on 21 May 2017. The five-part series follows a fictional court case in which university lecturer Simon Davis is tried for the murder of his wife Carla,in an attempt to recreate an accurate portrayal of an English legal trial. Filming and recording of nearly all real court proceedings in England and Wales was prohibited,hence the trial presented cannot be a genuine case. However,the prosecuting counsel,defence counsel and judge featured in the series were real professionals;and the jury was made up of twelve members of the British public. The only actors featured were the defendant and other key witnesses.
QEB Hollis Whiteman is a leading set of barristers' chambers specialising in criminal,financial,and regulatory law,located in the City of London. Established in the 1980s,it employs 70 barristers,including 21 King's Counsel,four Treasury Counsel and one Standing Counsel to the RCPO. The current Heads of Chambers are Selva Ramasamy KC and Adrian Darbishire KC and the Chief Clerk is Chris Emmings.
Oliver Edwin James Glasgow KC is a barrister who specialises in criminal law. Since November 2015 he served as one of the Senior Treasury Counsel at the Old Bailey,prosecuting serious criminal cases. On 1 January 2021 he was appointed First Senior Treasury Counsel by the Attorney General,Suella Braverman KC.
On 2 February 2020,two people were stabbed in Streatham,London in what police termed a terrorist incident. The attacker,Sudesh Amman,was shot dead by the police. A nearby woman was slightly injured by broken glass as a result. At the time Amman was under active counter-terrorism surveillance,after having recently being released from prison on licence;he had been convicted in 2018 for disseminating terrorist material. Following the attack,the British government introduced the Terrorist Offenders Bill,a piece of emergency legislation intended to prevent those convicted of terrorist offences from being released early from prison;this bill was approved by Parliament and came into force by the end of the month.
The Director of Public Prosecutions of Hong Kong (DPP) is a law officer and head of the Prosecutions Division of the Department of Justice;the director is responsible for directing the conduct of trials and appeals on behalf of Hong Kong,providing legal advice to law enforcement agencies,exercising the discretion of whether to institute criminal proceedings,and providing advice to others in government on proposed changes to the criminal law.
