Andrew Cayley KC is quick to acknowledge that prosecutors in England and Wales take a lot of flack — and indeed, some of that criticism has come from him.
Two years ago Cayley was appointed chief inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after having spent seven years as the director of service prosecutions, which primarily brings military courts martial cases. He changed briefs in the midst of a criminal justice system struggling under the restrictions of the Covid pandemic and a record-breaking backlog of cases in the crown courts.
Several months before Cayley was appointed to his present role, Max Hill KC, the director of public prosecutions, had benefited from an £85 million government cash injection that allowed the CPS to recruit nearly 500
