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

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under the Director of Public Prosecutions. Between April 2018 and April 2023 he was Registrar of the

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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 appointed

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(CB) in the

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for a period of five years; and on 17 April, he was sworn in. He was succeeded as Registrar by

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on 17 April 2023. He was appointed

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(KCMG) in the

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for services to the International Criminal Court and international criminal justice.

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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) Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Companions of the Order of the Bath British solicitors