Commenting on concerns over access to justice since the government introduced the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012, Lord Woolf admitted: 'Like the Savoy Hotel, ...

The former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, has said he is "not prepared to be cross-examined" over statements he has previously made in support of the divisive Medical Innovation Bill. Speaking during ...

The proper role of politicians in the criminal justice system is not to decide individual sentences but to provide the legal framework in which judges can pass sentence. It was right that the Lord ...

Lord Woolf, who led the inquiry into the 1990 Strangeways Prison riot, said sentencing "inflation" - in response to public pressure - meant more people were spending more time in jail, leaving the ...

Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf has become a tenant at Blackstone Chambers. Woolf, who retired this month, will train as a mediator before joining the set’s group of mediators, which ...

The Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf has delivered his strongest endorsement of the controversial powers held by Lord Irvine. In an overtly political speech at the Lord Mayor’s annual dinner for ...

Lord Woolf is spending his last day as Lord Chief Justice after five years as the top judge in England and Wales. The 72-year-old judge is being replaced by current Master of the Rolls, Lord Phillips ...

Lord Woolf said life prison terms were handed down "too frequently" by the courts, and judges should be able to be "more precise" in the way they passed sentences. A long-standing supporter of ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A former lord chief justice has called for an end to mandatory life sentences for murder.