Senior Crown Prosecutor
| Posting date: | 05 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £62,820 to £73,520 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | £62,820 - £73,520 + £3,150 RRA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Crown Prosecution Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Your roles and responsibilities
- You demonstrate high levels of advocacy and communication with stakeholders in relation to all cases for which they are accountable so as to maintain public and international confidence in the extradition process.
- You demonstrate a high level of oral and written communication skills in all matters relating to the conduct of extradition cases, in particular the ability to distil and explain complexities to foreign jurisdictions.
- You draft responses for complaints and parliamentary correspondence
- You deal effectively and persuasively with a wide range of people, both within and outside the Service, as part of a multi-skilled team and on an individual basis in order to ensure effective and successful conduct of cases.
- You analyse and review export extradition requests in accordance with the Extradition Act 2003; determining whether any bars to extradition apply; responding to defence challenges to extradition and advising requesting States upon the conduct of extradition proceedings and draft requests for further information.
- You review files from CPS Areas in import extradition cases to determine their suitability for extradition.
- You prepare instructions for counsel.
- You analyse, review, prepare and conduct proceedings in less complex export extradition requests in Westminster Magistrates’ Court and the High Court; assisting Specialist Prosecutors on more complex cases; and reviewing non- Part 1 import cases to determine their suitability for extradition.
- You undertake advocacy in Westminster Magistrates’ Court for at least two days a week in relation to all export extradition cases
- You demonstrate high levels of advocacy and communication with stakeholders in relation to all cases for which they are accountable so as to maintain public and international confidence in the extradition process.
- You demonstrate a high level of oral and written communication skills in all matters relating to the conduct of extradition cases, in particular the ability to distil and explain complexities to foreign jurisdictions.
- You draft responses for complaints and parliamentary correspondence
- You deal effectively and persuasively with a wide range of people, both within and outside the Service, as part of a multi-skilled team and on an individual basis in order to ensure effective and successful conduct of cases.
- You analyse and review export extradition requests in accordance with the Extradition Act 2003; determining whether any bars to extradition apply; responding to defence challenges to extradition and advising requesting States upon the conduct of extradition proceedings and draft requests for further information.
- You review files from CPS Areas in import extradition cases to determine their suitability for extradition.
- You prepare instructions for counsel.
- You analyse, review, prepare and conduct proceedings in less complex export extradition requests in Westminster Magistrates’ Court and the High Court; assisting Specialist Prosecutors on more complex cases; and reviewing non- Part 1 import cases to determine their suitability for extradition.
- You undertake advocacy in Westminster Magistrates’ Court for at least two days a week in relation to all export extradition cases