Peter Edward Lewis is a retired British prosecutor, serving from 2007 until 2016 as the Chief Executive of the

Crown Prosecution Service The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The main responsibilities of the CPS are to provide legal advi ...

under the Director of Public Prosecutions. Since April 2018 he has been Registrar of the

International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals f ...

Career

Lewis qualified as a solicitor in 1981, and started as a prosecutor in West Midlands Prosecuting Solicitors before joining the Crown Prosecution Service at its inception in 1986 when the police prosecutorial offices were merged into a single national body. Appointed as Chief Executive in January 2007 to replace Richard Foster, Lewis was the first Chief Executive of the service to be appointed from within the ranks having started as a prosecutor. As of 2015, Lewis was paid a salary of between £160,000 and £164,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time. In February 2016, the CPS announced that Lewis would retire, and be replaced by Nick Folland from 16 March 2016. Lewis was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2012. On 28 March 2018, he was elected Registrar to the

for a period of five years; and on 17 April, he was sworn in.

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A portrait of Lewis
by the photographer Mark Thomas
An interview with Lewis in 2011
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Peter Living people British prosecutors British civil servants Registrars of the International Criminal Court Year of birth missing (living people)