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The Director of Public Prosecutions is appointed by the Home
Secretary but he works under the superintendence of the Attorney-General.
He is a civil servant and must be a barrister of solicitor
of at least ten years’ standing.
His main functions are to institute and conduct criminal proceedings
which are of unusual importance or difficulty, including prosecutions
for all offences punishable
by death. Although he institutes the proceedings, they are
brought in the name of the Crown, for example, R (=Rex or Regina)
v. Smith.
It used to be the case that when a criminal appeal was heard
by the House of
Lords, the Director was both nominally and practically make
a party to it, so that it was cited, for example Smith v. D.P.P.
(Director of Public Prosecutions).
This practice was discontinued in 1979, so that now the Crown
is nominally a party even to criminal
appeals in the House of Lords.
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