Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf

Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf (born 2 May 1933) is a retired British barrister and judge who served as Master of the Rolls from 1996 to 2000 and then as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 2000 to 2005, becoming the first Lord Chief Justice to hold the newly created position of President of the Courts of England and Wales under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. He also served as a Non Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong from 2003 to 2012. He entered the bar despite a childhood stutter and advice from his housemaster against the profession, and he led the 1990 Woolf Inquiry into the prison disturbances at Strangeways, which produced twelve key recommendations and 204 further proposals for reform of the prison system. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/