Harry Woolf

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Harry Woolf (Lord Woolf) is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, having joined on the 1 October 1992.

Career

Woolf is a former high ranking lawyer and judge. His legal career started in 1955 and in 1973 he was appointed first Treasury Counsel, representing the Government in cases. As a judge he was appointed Lord Justice of Appeal, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He retired from the British courts in September 2005.[1]

Qatar

Lord Woolf helped set up the commercial court of Qatar, "the first common law court in a shariah law state," his secretary told the Wall Street Journal.[3]

Affiliations

Notes

  1. ↑ The Rt. Hon. the Lord Woolf Blackstone Chambers, accessed 14 January 2015
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lord Woolf Parliament.UK, accessed 14 January 2015
  3. ↑ Politics and Business in the House of Lords Wall Street Journal, accessed 14 January 2015