Harry Woolf

This article deals with the British judge, for the historian see Harry Woolf (historian)

Harry Woolf, 2015

Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf , CH , PC , FBA (born May 2, 1933 in Newcastle ) was the incumbent Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from June 6, 2000 to October 1, 2005 . He is succeeded by Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers . The constitutional reform made him the first Lord Chief Justice , who is also President of the Courts of England and Wales , and thus the highest judge, in place of the Lord Chancellor .

life and career

The son of a builder and architect, Woolf attended Fettes College in Edinburgh and studied law at the University of London . He became a barrister in 1954 and a High Court Judge in 1979 , in 1992 he became Lord Judge , from June 4, 1996 to June 6, 2000 he was Master of the Rolls . On the same day he succeeded Baron Bingham of Cornhill as Lord Chief Justice . In 1992 he was raised under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as Baron Woolf , of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond , to the non-hereditary nobility for life (Life Peer). He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher . In 2015 he became a member of the Order of the Companions of Honor .

Administration

Woolf did not mince words in his work. In a 2004 speech at Cambridge University , he spoke out against the British constitutional reform in 2005 , which would install a Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in place of the House of Lords as the highest court of appeal , allowing the Lord Chancellor and the government to decide future constitutional reforms.

Woolf was chair of the Civil Law Reform Committee and removed many of the Latin terms from English law to make it simpler and more accessible. The 1998 Code of Civil Procedure in England is a direct result of his work.

Woolf is one of the supporters of British prison reform.

Web links

Commons : Harry Woolf  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Biography in the UK Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ The London Gazette : Supplement 53070, p. 16751 , October 7, 1992.