Ken Macdonald

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ken Macdonald
Occupation	Barrister
Date Of Birth	Jan 4, 1953(1953-01-04)
Age	71
Birthplace	Windsor
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Windsor
Horoscope	Aquarius

Ken Macdonald Biography

Ken Macdonald is one of the most popular and richest Barrister who was born on January 4, 1953 in Windsor, Windsor, United Kingdom. Born on 4 January 1953 in Windsor, he attended Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He read PPE at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1971 to 1974. During his time at Oxford he was convicted of supplying cannabis after sending 0.1 g of the drug through the post. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £75.

In August 2003 it was announced that Macdonald would succeed Sir David Calvert-Smith as DPP in October of that year. The appointment was immediately denounced by Opposition spokesmen as “rampant cronyism” and a “provocative appointment” due to Macdonald’s business relationship with Cherie Booth (wife of then Prime Minister Tony Blair) and his lack of prosecution experience. Government officials, including both the Attorney General and Solicitor General defended the appointment as it had been made by an independent board consisting of First Civil Service Commissioner Baroness Prashar; Sir Hayden Phillips, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Constitutional Affairs; Sir David Omand, Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office; and Sir Robin Auld, Lord Justice of Appeal. A few days after the announcement the press uncovered details of his earlier conviction, sparking fresh controversy. Fellow lawyer David Pannick QC, writing in The Times, defended Macdonald’s appointment and attacked the tabloid campaign against him; Macdonald’s predecessor also dismissed the relevance of the drugs offence; and a report in The Independent also found support for the appointment from within the legal system.

Macdonald retired as DPP on 31 October 2008, returning to private practice at Matrix Chambers and becoming a regular contributor to The Times, where he writes on law, security and politics. In 2009, he was appointed a Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. In 2010, he became a Deputy High Court Judge and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford.

On 14 December 2009, Macdonald wrote an article in The Times about the Chilcot Inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War. This article was more critical than anything that has been said so far by any of the senior civil servants who worked in Whitehall when Blair was prime minister. It attracted media interest also because Macdonald is a member of Matrix Chambers as is Cherie Blair. Macdonald describes Blair’s “sycophancy towards power” and wrote that “since those sorry days we have frequently heard [Blair] repeating the self-regarding mantra that ‘hand on heart, I only did what I thought was right’. But this is a narcissist’s defence, and self-belief is no answer to misjudgment: it is certainly no answer to death.”

In 1980 he married Linda Zuck, a television producer for production company Illuminations based in Islington. They have two sons and a daughter, and three granddaughters.

Ken Macdonald Net Worth

Ken Macdonald is one of the richest Barrister from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ken Macdonald 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kenneth Donald John Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of River Glaven, QC (born 4 January 1953) was Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of England and Wales (2003–2008). In that office he was ex officio head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was previously a Recorder (part-time judge) and defence barrister. He is currently Warden of Wadham College, Oxford and a life peer in the House of Lords, where he sits as a crossbencher and was previously a Liberal Democrat.

He became the first pupil of barrister Helena Kennedy, was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in July 1978 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1997. As a junior barrister he defended a number of terrorist suspects (both Provisional IRA and those from the Middle East), fraudsters and major drug dealers, he was also on the defence team for the Matrix Churchill trial. In the late 1990s, he was a co-founder of Matrix Chambers (a set of barristers’ chambers specialising in human rights cases) with Cherie Booth and Tim Owen QC. In 2001 he became a recorder (a part-time judge) in the Crown Court.

He was awarded a knighthood in the 2007 New Year Honours.

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In April 2011, he joined the Council of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

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Ken Ranked on the list of most popular Barrister. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ken Macdonald celebrates birthday on January 4 of every year.

Who is Ken MacDonald?

Kenneth Donald John Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of River Glaven, QC (born 4 January 1953) is a British lawyer and politician who served as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of England and Wales from 2003 to 2008. In that office he was head of the Crown Prosecution Service.

Who played Mike in Only Fools and Horses?

Kenneth MacDonald

Who played the barman in Only Fools and Horses?

Mike Fisher
Created by| John Sullivan
Classification| Former; regular
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Occupation| Barman (1983–1996) Pub landlord (1983–2001)

How old is Kenneth McDonald?

70 years (1901–1972)

Who died from Only Fools and Horses?

Ron Pember , who starred in Only Fools and Horses, has died aged 87. The actor played Baz in the critically acclaimed sitcom and also featured in the BBC comedy Red Dwarf and co-starred in the 1970s BBC drama Secret Army.