CPS goes back to the future

New DPP is former prosecutor who spent 20 years as defence lawyer

Why would anybody want to become the director of public prosecutions for England and Wales?

Sir Allan Green (1987–1992), the first DPP to head the newly-established Crown Prosecution Service, contrived to procure his own resignation.

The late Dame Barbara Mills (1992–1998) — not to be confused with the highly regarded KC of the same name — struggled to co…