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unusual facts about Crown Counsel



Oswald Leslie De Kretser III

In 1940 he became a Crown Counsel and went on to joinin the judicial service as an acting Magistrate in Chilaw in 1943.


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Cheryl-Lynn Vidal

There, she joined the Office of the DPP and later the Attorney-General's Ministry as Crown Counsel, and also worked as a legal advisor for the Belize Police Department and as acting Registrar-General.

Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service

Unless the cases are of especial importance, such as the Lockerbie trial held at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, the prosecutions are normally (but not always) led by Advocates Depute who are known collectively as Crown Counsel and are experienced members of the Faculty of Advocates normally appointed for a limited period of three years.