The current DPP is Keir Starmer QC.

The current DPP is Barra McGrory QC.

In Grollo v Palmer ( 1995 ) and Wilson v Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs ( 1998 ), the court developed the persona designata doctrine, and in Kable v DPP ( 1997 ), the court rejected attempts by the Parliament of New South Wales to establish a system of preventative detention, and found that the states do not have unlimited ability to regulate their courts, given the place of the courts in the Australian court hierarchy.

" This referred to the claim by the Union that governmental initiation of a review of the DPP decision amounted to political interference in the justice system.

In R. v Jones ( 1987 ) and R. v Atkin & Others ( 1992 ), rough horseplay for no purpose besides enjoyment of sadistically taunting others to the point of injuring them was deemed non-criminal ( even in cases where the victim has not consented, so long as the accused honestly but not reasonably believed the victim to have consented ( DPP v Morgan 1976 )).

Vice President Annette Lu was appointed acting DPP leader.

Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded.

The former DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang was appointed to replace Hsieh as premier.

The first years of the DPP as the ruling party drew accusations from the opposition that, as a self-styled Taiwanese nationalist party, the DPP was itself inadequately sensitive to the ethnographic diversity of Taiwan's population.

In DPP v Harper ( 1997 ) it was held that insanity is not generally a defence to strict liability offences.

* On May 18, 2000, Chen Shui-bian was elected to be the president of Taiwan, ending the half-century rule of the KMT on the island, and became the first president of the DPP.

The company's name was changed back on 1 August 2008, and the names on the postal stamps were reversed in late 2008, soon after the Kuomintang ( KMT ) candidate Ma Ying-Jeou won back presidency and ended 8 years of the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) rule.

This was seen in mainland China as being in line with a series of desinicization actions by both the Taiwan government and the DPP to rid both Chiang and China from the Taiwan public scene.

These hopes proved unfulfilled as then-Kuomintang member James Soong was elected governor of the Taiwan province by a wide margin defeating the DPP candidate Chen Ding-nan.

In 1997, as the result of an agreement between the KMT and the DPP, the administration of the province was streamlined in curtailed constitutional changes.

Some in Taiwan believed that Lee's action was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the Kuomintang to ensure victory for Chen, who represented the DPP.

In the December 2005 3-in-1 local elections, the KMT made large gains and held 14 seats, the DPP suffered defeat and held only six, the PFP retained only one, and the TSU was completely shut out.

While analysts feared that a PFP run will split the Pan-Blue Coalition vote and hand a winnable election to the DPP ( as was the case in the 2000 Presidential election ), Soong has insisted that his campaign is a serious one and that he will complete his run .< ref > http :// www. atimes. com / atimes / China / MJ04Ad01. html </ reF > On election day, however, the Soong-Lin ticket underperformed and garnered a mere 2. 77 % of votes.

He was widely perceived to be an excellent campaigner and his excellent showing in the governorship ended hopes by the DPP of a " Yeltsin effect ", by which an elected governor would have more legitimacy than the national government.

A DPP proposal to allow the citizen right to initiate constitutional referendums was pulled off the table due to a lack of support.

In 1998, the KMT fielded Ma to challenge the then-incumbent Taipei mayor Chen Shui-bian of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ), who was seeking re-election.

Ma was able to repair the political damage and, in December 2002, became the leading figure in the KMT by easily winning reelection as mayor of Taipei with the support of 64 % of Taipei voters while DPP challenger Lee Ying-yuan received 36 %.

He was strongly criticized by the DPP for not allowing the ROC national flag to be flown along with a PRC flag during Asian Women's Football Championship held in Taipei.

The DPP list of ' video nasties ' was first made public in June 1983.

Su had pledged to step down if the DPP lost either Taipei County or failed to win 10 of the 23 mayor / magistrate positions.

James Hamilton, who had served as DPP for 12 years, announced in July 2011 that he will be taking early retirement and stepped down in November 2011.

In Parker v The Queen ( 1963 ), Chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon led a unanimous judgment which rejected a precedent of the House of Lords in DPP v Smith saying, " I shall not depart from the law on this matter as we have long since laid it down in this Court and I think that Smith's case should not be used in Australia as authority at all "; the following year the Privy Council upheld an appeal, applying the House of Lords precedent.

This presumption is well established under the common law ; the much-celebrated case of Woolmington v DPP laid down the basic criminal law principle that it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the defendant's guilt subject to the defence of insanity and statutory exceptions.

The test is based on " persons "; DPP v Whyte AC 849 established that it was not sufficient for an individual to be depraved or corrupted, it must be that a significant number of people likely to read it would become corrupt.

It would be up to the DPP, Joe Naigulevu, to make a final decision to charge the individual implicated.

Each CCP is supported by an Area Business Manager ( ABM ), and their respective roles mirror, at a local level, the responsibilities of the DPP and Chief Executive.

Having failed twice in gaining DPP support for his presidential bid, first in 1996 when he lost the party primary to Peng Ming-Min and second in 1999 when the party threw its support behind the widely popular former mayor of Taipei City, Chen Shui-Bian, Hsu decided to withdraw from the DPP in 1999.

Thirdly, the courts held in Straker v DPP 1 QB 926 that negatives for photographs could not be forfeited if it was not intended to publish them, regardless of their obscene nature.

This list became known as the DPP list of " video nasties ".

Two other films are mistakenly thought to have been on the DPP list:

It soon became one of the infamous titles to feature on the government's Department of Public Prosecutions list ( DPP ), better known to the tabloid press as the " Video Nasty " list.

In the UK, the film was placed on the DPP list and classified as a video nasty in 1984.

In October 2007, with the DPP administration still in power, it was announced that the ROC would standardize the English transliterations of its Chinese Mandarin place names by the end of that year, after years of confusion stemming from multiple spellings, using the locally developed Tongyong Pinyin.

In addition, the DPP nominated a large number of new unknown candidates, in part because the big names in the DPP were in the government, whereas the pan-blue coalition, being in opposition, found it easier to nominate people with a large amount of name recognition.

In Connelly v DPP ( AC 1254 ), the Law Lords ruled that a defendant could not be tried for any offence arising out of substantially the same set of facts relied upon in a previous charge of which he had been acquitted, unless there are " special circumstances " proven by the prosecution.

Once the DPP had representation in the Legislative Yuan ( LY, Congress ), the party used the legislature as a forum to challenge the government.

Where the KMT had been guilty of Chinese chauvinism, the critics charged, the DPP might offer nothing more as a remedy than Hoklo chauvinism.

In 1999, accusations of nepotism were levied against the DPP after it was revealed that Kjærsgaard's husband, Henrik Thorup, had been paid by the party as an independent consultant for over two years.

The DPP refused to reveal Thorup's salary and defended its actions, claiming that Pia Kjærsgaard's husband was the right man for the job and that his employment had nothing to do with his marriage to the party leader.

This had the effect of turning the May 14 elections into an opinion poll on relations with mainland China which was undesired by the Democratic Progressive Party, though the DPP subsequently gained a plurality in the elections.

The Irish Supreme Court had rejected the existence of the defense in The People ( DPP ) v Joseph O ' Mahony ILRM 244.

As DPP Chairman, Hsu had moderated the platform of the party, promoting reconciliation with the People's Republic of China and the opening of direct links, a move, ironically, not supported by President Lee.

Officials who identified most strongly with the nation itself, such as the Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) and allied parties, saw no reason to adopt Hanyu Pinyin just because mainland China and the UN had.

* Sir Thomas Hetherington, QC ( 1986 – 1987 ) ( had been DPP since 1977 )

In May 2008, Mutharika said that Muluzi was trying to remove him from office by depriving the DPP MPs of their seats ; to press its demand for the removal of the DPP MPs, the opposition had refused to debate any government bills.

Hsu came out to support DPP candidate Frank Hsieh in the 2008 presidential election even though he had been connected with the pan-blue camp during much of the period Chen Shui-bian served as president.

The DPP and KMT had advocated a majority vote for passage, while the smaller parties advocated a three-fourths threshold.

" In this case, criminal charges were not pursued against Mr. Vizard because the DPP was not satisfied that there was admissible, substantial and reliable evidence of the offence and therefore there were not reasonable prospects of securing a conviction … Whilst this was a decision for the DPP, it was also consistent with senior counsel advice that ASIC had independently received .... When ASIC announced on 4 July that we were pursuing civil penalties against Mr. Vizard, there were some suggestions in the press that we had gone soft or that we had somehow been nobbled by government.