Ken Macdonald
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The Right Honourable The Lord Macdonald of River Glaven QC |
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| Born |
Kenneth Donald John Macdonald 4 January 1953 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
| Occupation |
Barrister Warden of Wadham College, Oxford |
Kenneth Donald John Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of River Glaven, QC (born 4 January 1953) was Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of England and Wales (2003–2008). In that office he was ex officio head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was previously a Recorder (part-time judge) and defence barrister. He is currently Warden of Wadham College, Oxford and a Liberal Democrat life peer.
Born on 4 January 1953 in Windsor, he attended Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He read PPE at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1971 to 1974. During his time at Oxford he was convicted of supplying cannabis after sending 0.1 g of the drug through the post. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £75.
He became the first pupil of barrister Helena Kennedy, was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in July 1978 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1997. As a junior barrister he defended a number of terrorist suspects (both Provisional IRA and those from the Middle East), fraudsters and major drug dealers, he was also on the defence team for the Matrix Churchill trial. In the late 1990s, he was a co-founder of Matrix Chambers (a set of barristers' chambers specialising in human rights cases) with Cherie Booth and Tim Owen QC. In 2001 he became a recorder (a part-time judge) in the Crown Court.
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