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Revision as of 18:19, 31 March 2004 by Morwen (talk | contribs) (stub)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Henry Kenneth Woolf, Lord Woolf (born May 2, 1993) is the current Lord Chief Justice for England and Wales, making him the head of the judiciary.
He bacame a barrister in 1954, a High Court judge in 1979, a Law Lord in 1992, and Master of the Rolls in 1996. He became the head judge in 2000.
He has been outspoken in this job. In 2004 he spoke out against plans to create a Supreme Court of the United Kingdom to replace the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the final court of appeal. He is a supporter of prison reform.
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