Stephen Lindsay Parkinson (born 15 June 1957) is an English solicitor and former barrister,[1] who has been the Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales) (DPP) and head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) since November 2023.
[1] He undertook his pupillage at 3 Temple Gardens between 1980 and 1982, thereby qualifying to practise as a barrister.
[8] Parkinson then moved into the wider civil service, and was assistant solicitor at the Department of Trade and Industry from 1992 to 1996, and head of the Company/Chancery Litigation Group at the Treasury Solicitor's Department from 1996 to 1999.
[1][7][9] In 2003, Parkinson moved into private practice and joined London law firm Kingsley Napley.
He was head of the criminal litigation practice from 2006 to 2018, and subsequently became the firm's senior partner in May 2018.