Sentences with phrase «director of public prosecutions lord»

Former director of public prosecutions Lord McDonald, who has been asked to review the Harbottle file of emails, told the Commons committee of culture, media and sport that the file did suggest wider criminality.

In 2004 the Foreign Affairs Select Committee called for the ISC to become a full Parliamentary committee, something backed by former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord MacDonald and many more.

[210] Later on the same day, giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, former director of public prosecutions Lord MacDonald stated that it took him «three to five minutes» to decide that the same emails contained in the file passed to Harbottle & Lewis contained «blindingly obvious» evidence of corrupt payments to police officers, which had to be immediately passed to the Metropolitan Police.

Former director of public prosecutions Lord Macdonald of River Glavenn called it «a policy beloved of the world's worst regimes during the 20th century».

Not exact matches

[241] On 19 July, Lord MacDonald the former Director of Public Prosecutions engaged by News Corporation to review the emails handed to Harbottle & Lewis in 2007, said in evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee:

Clegg has won the influential support of Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions and a Liberal Democrat.

But its calls have been rejected by former attorney general Lord Goldsmith, director of public prosecutions Ken MacDonald and, yesterday, former lord chancellor Lord FalcoLord Goldsmith, director of public prosecutions Ken MacDonald and, yesterday, former lord chancellor Lord Falcolord chancellor Lord FalcoLord Falconer.

The director of public prosecutions was instructed by the law lords to draw up guidelines indicating the various factors for and against prosecution in such cases.

But even before Friday's discovery of potentially lethal bomb plots, the Guardian reported that the review ordered by the incoming home secretary, and apparently in the safe hands of the former director of public prosecutions turned Lib Dem peer Lord Macdonald, was in danger of being captured by the security establishment.

Liberal Democrat Lord Macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, has told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was «perfectly reasonable» to ask Lord Rennard to apologise.

The judges will be Lord Justice Andrew McFarlane, who sits in the Court of Appeal, former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC and journalist Owen Jones.