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Lord Justice William Davis was accused of politicising the judiciary and putting the safety of the public at risk. Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick told the Commons that Lord Justice ...
Lord Goldsmith then approached the England and Wales Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf. He appears to have succeeded in persuading his Northern Ireland counterpart to see Sales. On 4 August 2003 ...
Concerns about the speed at which ministers announced major changes to Britain's legal landscape have been voiced by the Lord Chief Justice. Lord Woolf, the most senior judge in England and Wales ...
Although Ms Dobbs is the first person from a "visible" minority ethnic community to join the High Court, the present Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Woolf, is among a number of top ...
The Lord Chancellor will preside over the award ceremony ... He has influenced legislative policy and judicial practice, notably through contributions to the Woolf Report on Access to Justice, and the ...
In April 1999, then Home Secretary Jack Straw, reduced Rossi's sentence from 15 to 13 years and Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf has since refused to reduce it further. Her accomplice Molloy was ...
“Lord Woolf’s plan was to secure the services of a number of ... “I make an effort to stay updated on news about Kazakhstan. Having been Chief Justice for just under a year, I still have much to learn ...
Scrapping short prison terms is among a number of ideas set to be considered by an upcoming government review of sentencing. Ministers are interested in proposals to toughen up community orders as ...
The paper, Sentence inflation: a judicial critique, is signed by the four surviving former Lords Chief Justice of England and Wales – Lord Woolf, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Thomas of ...
But former Lord Chief Justices Woolf, Phillips, Thomas and Burnett, and former head of criminal justice Leveson, said the move did not go far enough. “While much of the discussion of the crisis ...
Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf ruled less than a year later that the boys were eligible for immediate parole and in June 2001 they were freed, aged 18. Name: John Taylor Crime: Murdered Susan McNamara, ...