Mr Kenneth Caley CBE TD LLB

Biography

Kenneth Caley is a currently retired Solicitor and Higher Courts Advocate. After private practice and a position as Branch Crown Prosecutor in the West Midlands, Kenneth was appointed as Chief Crown Prosecutor for Suffolk in 2004. He was appointed Chief Crown Prosecutor for Essex and the East of England in 2007 and retired from that appointment in 2012.

During the course of his career Kenneth prosecuted and advised in a wide variety of casework including police professional standard cases, informant (chis) and undercover cases, sudden infant death syndrome cases, manslaughter, murder, large scale public disorder, dishonesty cases including fraud and forgery.

He deputed two barristers to become embedded with the police investigation team into the Ipswich murders and made the charging decision in that case; he advised in a case involving a well known TV actor, advised in the case involving the death of a prominent animal rights campaigner.

He led high profile enquiries on behalf of the DPP and served as the Chief Crown Prosecutor representative on the DPP’s People Committee.

Kenneth chaired the South Eastern Circuit Joint Advocacy Selection Committee. He also chaired the Essex Criminal Justice Board.

In parallel with his legal career, Kenneth served as an army reservist. He passed out of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1985 and was commissioned into a logistics Regiment. After tours as Troop Commander, Squadron Commander and Regimental Second in Command, in 1999 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in which capacity he was given command of his Regiment. Kenneth retired from the military in 2010.

Kenneth served eight years as a fitness to practise Chair in conduct and competence proceedings for the NMC and also as Registrations Appeal Chair. He currently remains on the Registrations Appeal Panel.

He served on the ABF Soldiers’ Charity committee from 2002 until 2014 and also chaired  the Warwickshire branch of SSAFA, ‘The Military Charity’ for five years from 2014 until his retirement from that post in 2019.

Kenneth is married with three grown up daughters and lives in South Warwickshire on the Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire borders.

Committee membership

• Preliminary Investigation Committee

Declaration of interests