Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf

The Lord Woolf
Woolf in 2020
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
In office
6 June 2000 – 1 October 2005
Nominated byLord Irvine
Appointed byElizabeth II
DeputyThe Lord Judge
Preceded byThe Lord Bingham of Cornhill
Succeeded byThe Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
Master of the Rolls
In office
4 June 1996 – 6 June 2000
Preceded bySir Thomas Bingham
Succeeded byThe Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
In office
1 October 1992 – 4 June 1996
Preceded byThe Lord Ackner
Succeeded byThe Lord Hutton
Personal details
Born (1933-05-02) 2 May 1933 (age 91)
Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Spouse
Marguerite Sassoon
(m. 1961)
Children3
Alma materUniversity College London
OccupationJudge

Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf (born 2 May 1933) is a British life peer and retired barrister and judge. He was Master of the Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 made him the first Lord Chief Justice to be President of the Courts of England and Wales. He was a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong from 2003 to 2012. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.