- Ken MacDonald
Sir Ken Macdonald QC is Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales. In that office he is "ex officio" head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was previously a defence barrister. He studied at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1974. He was called to the bar in 1978 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1997. In 2001 he became a recorder (a part time judge) in the Crown Court. He was awarded a knighthood from the Queen in the 2007 New Year's Honours list.
- Bulelani Ngcuka
Bulelani T Ngcuka (born 2 May 1954) was the first national Director of Public Prosecutions in South Africa, and is the husband of Deputy President of South Africa Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
- Damian Bugg
Damian Bugg, AM, QC, is the current Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, a position he has held since 2 August 1999. Prior to his elevation, he was the Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions from July 1986 to 1999. In 2005, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the law. He is currently the Chancellor of the University of Tasmania.
- David Calvert-Smith
Sir David Calvert-Smith QC (born April 1945) was Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales from 1998 to 2003 and is now a High Court judge. He was called to the bar in 1969 and became a queen's counsel in 1997. He was knighted in 2002 and became a High Court judge in 2005. After beginning his career both prosecuting and defending, he specialised in prosecution work from 1986, including several cases of murder, terrorism and organised crime.
- Diane Pretty
Diane Pretty (November 15, 1958 - May 11, 2002) was a British woman from Luton, Bedfordshire, who became the focus of a debate about assisted dying in Britain during the early part of the 21st Century. Diane Pretty was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, and when this disease became advanced such that she was unable to move or communicate easily, she wished to end her life, with assistance from her husband.
- Andrew Walker
Andrew Walker is a British barrister and former deputy coroner for Hornsey, London. In June 2006 he was appointed on temporary contract as assistant deputy coroner in Oxfordshire, one of three temporary appointees to assist in reducing a backlog of inquests into the deaths of British military personnel overseas.
- Barbara Mills
Dame Barbara Mills DBE QC is the Adjudicator for HM Revenue and Customs. She has held this post since it was created on April 18 2005. Previously she was Adjudicator for HM Inland Revenue and for HM Customs and Excise, having been appointed on April 26 1999. The Adjudicator is independent of HM Revenue & Customs, and deals with complaints from members of the public who are not satisfied with how their complaint is dealt with by that department.
- John McKechnie
John Roderick McKechnie QC (1 June 1950-) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia, and previously served as the State's first Director of Public Prosecutions. He attended Scotch College from 1963 until 1967, then graduated in law from the University of Western Australia in 1972. He then took articles with Jackson McDonald & Co, before joining the Crown Law Department.
- Rex Wild
Rex Wild QC is a former Director of Public Prosecutions for the Northern Territory of Australia. He was appointed to the position in 1998, retiring in 2006. One of his most prominent trials occurred in late 2005 when Wild led the prosecution of Bradley John Murdoch for the murder of Peter Falconio; he has said that this will be his final case as Director of Public Prosecutions.
- Ian Temby
Ian Temby (born 1942) - Q.C., Officer in the Order of Australia (AO). First Commissioner of the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). More recently commissioner in the Temby Royal Commission into the Finance Broking Industry (report tabled in 2002). Has lived in Summer Hill, New South Wales.
- Thomas Hetherington
Major Sir Thomas Chalmers Hetherington, KCB, CBE, 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. Hetherington was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. His father was a doctor.
- Allan Green
Sir Allan Green, KCB QC is a barrister in England and Wales. He was Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales and second head of the Crown Prosecution Service from 1987 to 1992. He was called to the bar in 1959 and rose to become a recorder (part-time judge) in 1979. After a successful career as a prosecutor he resigned from the bench to become Director of Public Prosecutions in 1987.
- Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is a Fijian lawyer of Indian descent, who was appointed Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Electoral Reform & Anti-Corruption in the interim Cabinet of Commodore Frank Bainimarama on 8 January 2006. Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is the son of Sayed Abdul Khaiyum, a longtime National Federation Party politician and the brother of former Fiji TV Journalist Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. He has a Masters degree in Law (University of Hong Kong), …
- Attorney General Of Ireland
The Attorney General is a constitutional officer who is the official adviser to the Irish Government in matters of law. He is in effect the chief law officer in the Republic of Ireland. The Attorney General is not a member of the Government but does participate in cabinet meetings when invited and attends government meetings. As the Attorney General advises the Government on the constitutionality of bills and treaties, …
- Gillian Lucky
Gillian Lucky (born April 17 is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer. Since 2001 she has been United National Congress Member of Parliament for the Pointe-à-Pierre constituency. Lucky is currently an "Independent UNC Parliamentarian" after breaking ranks with the Opposition party. Lucky is well known for her debating skills; while a student at Naparima Girls' High School she won the "Trintoc Debate", a national Sixth Form debate.
- Norman Skelhorn
Sir Norman Skelhorn KBE QC (born 1909 - died 1988) was the Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales from 1964 to 1977. Like all DPPs before him, Sir Norman was a jobbing QC, who had defended amongst others Miss Noreen O'Connor, a state registered nurse who it was claimed in 1954 had murdered her friend Miss Friederika Buls, in what became known as the Loxton Murder.
- Francis Kean
Francis Kean (born 1966) is the Commander of the Fijian Navy. As of 24 January 2007, he is on leave pending trial on murder charges. Kean, whose brother-in-law, Commodore Frank Bainimarama is the Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces and Interim Prime Minister, was arrested on 6 January 2006 and charged with the murder of salesman John Whippy at the Royal Suva Yacht Club, after a wedding reception for Whippy's nephew Samuel Whippy and his bride, …
- Helen Duncan
Helen Duncan (November 25, 1897 - December 6,1956) was a Scottish medium, best known as the last person to be imprisoned under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735. Duncan was born in Callander, Stirling, northwest of the city of Stirling, in November, 1897. The daughter of a cabinet-maker, she made her name as a medium by offering seances in which she appeared to summon the spirits of recently deceased persons by emitting ectoplasm from her mouth.
- Attorney General Of Malaysia
The Attorney General of Malaysia, also referred to as the A-G (Malay: Peguam Negara), is the principal legal adviser to the Government of Malaysia. The Attorney General is also the highest ranking public prosecutor in the country and is also known as the Public Prosecutor, or simply "PP". The powers with regards to prosecution is contained in Article 145(3) of the Federal Constitution.
- Cyril Hare
Cyril Hare was the pseudonym of Arthur Alexander Gordon Clark (September 4, 1900 Mickleham, Surrey - August 25, 1958 Mickleham, Surrey), an English judge and crime writer. He was the son of a merchant who ran the family firm of wine and spirit importers Matthew Clark & Sons. He was educated at St Aubyn's, Rottingdean, and at Rugby.
- Bertie Smalls
Derek Creighton "Bertie" Smalls is considered by many as Britain's first supergrass.
- Andrew Stathis
Andreas Stathopolous (born 1952), who went by the name of Andrew Stathis, was a Greek-born Australian businessman who was alleged to have stolen some $19 million from Bishopsgate Insurance when he took control of that company in 1982. He fled and was sentenced to life in jail in Greece on drug charges before he could face court in Australia. Stathis came to Australia at the age of 2 with his parents, grew up in Blayney, …
- Thomas McCosker
Thomas McCosker, an Australian, visited Fiji, was arrested, tried and sentenced to 2 years jail for sodomy. An appeal was raised on the basis of Fiji's constitution outlawing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. On Friday August 26, 2005, his conviction, and that of Dhirendra Nadan, the other man involved, was overturned on constitutional grounds. Anti-sodomy laws were found to incompatible with the country’s 1997 Constitutional Bill of Rights.
- Sailosi Kepa
Sailosi Wai Kepa (4 November 1938 - 1 March 2004) was a Fijian statesman, judge, and diplomat. Born in the village of Nukuni on the island of Ono-I-Lau, was one of many distinguished public figures to hail from the Lau archipelago. He was educated at Draiba Fijian School and Lelean Memorial School, before enrolling in Nasinu Teachers College in 1959. He later studied received a Law degree. Kepa's legal career was a distinguished one, which took him into politics, diplomacy, …
- Ghananand Mishra
Ghananand Mishra (1916- April 2005) was a Fijian lawyer and judge. He was an Indo-Fijian of Brahmin stock, whose ancestors hailed from the Indian state of Kashmiri. Mishra served as Director of Public Prosecutions before his appointment to the High Court as a puisne judge. His interpretations of criminal law were pivotal in the development of Fiji's justice system. In 1973, the Leader of the Opposition nominated Mishra for the position of Chief Justice, …
- Simone Prendergast
Dame Simone Ruth Prendergast, DBE, JP, DL was created a DBE for her political and public service. She is a retired member of the UK's Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions' Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal which reviews cases of malfeasance and/or misconduct against British solicitors.
- Emma Connelly
Emma Connelly (nee Curran) is a solicitor with the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) noted for her work on high profile sex crime cases including the successful prosecution of cult leader William Kamm aka "The Little Pebble". Her involvement in Kamm's case resulted in her receiving attention from local media including the ABC News, Sydney Morning Herald and Manly Daily After commencing her career in the Sydney DPP office, …
- Rachel Hunter
Rachel Hunter Rachel Hunter commenced as Director-General of the Department of Education, Training and the Arts on 18 September 2006. Ms Hunter previously held the position of Director-General of Justice and Attorney-General, a role she held from November 2003 when she was appointed to undertake a review of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
- Andrew Hall Qc
Andrew Hall QC Andrew Hall is consistently named as a leader in his field. His practice at Doughty Street Chambers is exclusively in crime with a strong emphasis on civil liberties and human rights. Andrew has very extensive experience in all types of homicide, large scale drugs and other excise conspiracies, and has been instructed in a number of high profile terrorism cases.
- Langston Sibblies
Langston Sibblies holds the position of General Counsel to the Monetary Authority. His main responsibilities include the provision of legal advice to the Authority, assisting in litigation on behalf of the Authority as well as the provision of instructions to the Government's Legislative Counsel for amendments to the regulatory laws and the drafting of memoranda of understanding, relevant directives and other legal documentation for the Authority.
- Anna Ishaku
Anna Ishaku , Director of Public Prosecutions, Kaduna State, Nigeria Ms. Ishaku has a law degree and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1980. She has worked for six years in private practice in the areas of Commercial and family law before joining the service of Kaduna State government as a State Counsel, in the Attorney General Chambers.
- Rebecca Coen
Rebecca Coen Achievements: Following her graduation Rebecca studied at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns and was called to the Bar in 2005. From 2005 she worked as a Judicial Research Assistant at the Four Courts. Since 2006 she is working as the Legal Research Officer with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Her publications include: “The Rise of the Victim – A Path to Punitiveness” for the Irish Criminal Law Journal.
- Amanda Illing
Amanda has been at Matrix since 2000 and was involved in its original start up. She has a number of years of experience of managing barristers’ practices, negotiating fees and in the provision of legal services. She was a Civil Servant for 12 years in the Crown Prosecution Service, as a Law Clerk in the Special Casework Unit, then as Private Secretary to the Director of Public Prosecutions, before joining a set of barristers’ chambers.
- Shona Brings To
Shona Berndt Shona left the sunny climes of Queensland to follow a career in law — after first taking four years to see the world! Shona brings to NFL some 13 years’ experience as a PA and paralegal, working in HR and corporate legal fields. Prior to this she worked in Brisbane, specializing in intellectual property & technology, and in contracts administration, in addition to working in Queensland at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
- Sandra Mohr
Sandra Mohr Sandra is currently employed with the firm in conjunction with Legal Aid Queensland as a regional placement solicitor. She was admitted on the 23rd February, 2007 and holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New England. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in legal practice from the College of Law wherein she worked with the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions on criminal matters. She now works in family law and criminal law matters.
- Brian R. Calhoun
Brian was the Principal Crown Counsel in the Department of Public Prosecutions. Brian obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Political Science from York University followed by a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Windsor . In 1978 he was called as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ontario, whereupon he worked as an assistant Crown Attorney in that Province until being recruited by the Bermuda Government.
- Lloyd George Barnett
DR. LLOYD GEORGE BARNETT , OJ Dr. Lloyd George Barnett is a citizen of Jamaica. He attended Greenwich Primary School between 1939 and 1944, following which he obtained his secondary education at Calabar High School in Kingston (1945-1950). Dr. Barnett holds the B.A. (1954), the LL. B. (Honours, 1957); the LL.M. (1960) and the Ph. D. (1966), all of the of the University of London. He was admitted to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in December 1960.
- Sussi Kronborg Rasmussen
- Graham Satchwell
Graham Satchwell Managing Director Graham is a former British Police Service detective superintendent, a current member of the Stockholm Network, a European think tank, author, and specialist pharmaceutical industry anti-counterfeiting investigative strategy consultant. For several years to 1999, Graham was the official spokesperson (on IPR crime ) for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) England & Wales.
- Walter Stanwyck
Walter Stanwyck began his career in human resources management with the Victorian State Energy Commission prior to joining a major national consulting group in that State. He moved to Western Australia as Personnel Industrial Relations Manager of the then expanding Bell Group prior to establishing the consulting company Walter Stanwyck & Associates in 1976, which he continues today as a specialist Recruitment Consultancy for both the Public and Private sectors.