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'Sir Kenneth Donald John Macdonald', QC, is Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales ^[1]. In that office he is ''ex officio'' head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was previously a defence barrister.
He studied at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1974. He was called to the bar in 1978 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1997. In 2001 he became a recorder (a part time judge) in the Crown Court. He was awarded a knighthood from the Queen in the 2007 New Year's Honours list.

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Controversy

Shortly before becoming head of the CPS it was revealed that Sir Ken was once convicted of supplying cannabis when he was a student at Oxford University .
A small amount of controversy was generated when it emerged that Macdonald had been a law partner of the Prime Minister's (Tony Blair's) wife. Macdonald ran a barrister's chambers in London (that specialised in human rights legislation) with Cherie Booth. Prior to his appointment, however, Ken Macdonald had never prosecuted a single case.
The press ran a series of articles in early 2007 highlighting Macdonald's personal relationship with a female barrister, again a cause of minor controversy.

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