The CPS is committed to ensuring that the communities we serve see themselves better reflected in the diversity of our advocates. This extends to external advocates who prosecute on our behalf, including Treasury Counsel.
Treasury Counsel are a team of specialist advocates who prosecute many of the most serious and complex cases in the country, and advise and appear on behalf of the Law Officers, and other government departments.
The broad purpose of the equality duty is to integrate consideration of equality and good relations into the day-to-day business of public authorities.
An HGV driver has been jailed for a fatal crash on the M58, after prosecutors proved he had been distracted by looking at pornography on his phone moments before the collision.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Service Prosecuting Authority (SPA) conducted a public consultation on proposed revisions to the CPS-SPA Protocol regarding the exercise of criminal jurisdiction in England and Wales (the Protocol).