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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 .
Crown Prosecution Service: Style: Director: Type: Director of Public Prosecutions: Reports to: Attorney General for England and Wales: Appointer: The Attorney General on the recommendation of independent panels: Constituting instrument: Prosecution of Offences Act 1879: Formation: 3 July 1879: First holder: John Maule: Website: cps.gov.uk
In September 2023, it was announced that he would be the next Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service. [8] He took up the post on 1 November 2023, succeeding Sir Max Hill. [12] He is the first solicitor to be the DPP since the 1960s, and the first to head the CPS. [13] [needs update]
In July 2008, Patricia Scotland, Attorney General for England and Wales, named Starmer as the new head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Director of Public Prosecutions. He took over from Ken Macdonald on 1 November 2008. [2]
Official portrait as Director of Public Prosecutions, 2009. In July 2008, Patricia Scotland, Attorney General for England and Wales, named Starmer as the new Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). He succeeded Ken Macdonald, who publicly welcomed Starmer's appointment, on 1 November 2008.
The Lord Advocate, held by Dorothy Bain, since 22 June 2021, heads the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and is the chief public prosecutor in Scotland. It is not within the powers of the Scottish Parliament to remove the incumbent Lord Advocate from their post as head of the systems of criminal prosecution and investigation of deaths ...
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Major Sir Thomas Chalmers Hetherington, KCB CBE TD QC (18 September 1926 – 28 March 2007), 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.