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, ...

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.

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 certainly writes extensively on the law and the medical profession in his 'little book'. Part 6 is aptly named 'Medical Law' and contains a speech delivered at the Royal Society of Medicine ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...