Alison Saunders

Director of Public Prosecutions

Alison Saunders leads the Crown Prosecution Service, which consists of 7,000 staff and undertakes approximately 800,000 prosecutions every year, in her role as director of public prosecutions. She became the second woman and first lawyer from the Crown Prosecution Service to hold the role when she was appointed in 2013, and is also the first DPP not to be a Queen’s Counsel. Saunders qualified as a barrister and worked at Lloyd’s of London before joining the CPS when it was first formed in 1986. Prior to becoming director of public prosecutions, Saunders was chief crown prosecutor for the CPS, during which time she was involved in the retrial and conviction of the murderers of Stephen Lawrence.

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