The Rt Hon. the Lord Woolf
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Woolf's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Woolf. His name is Harry Kenneth Woolf, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
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Lords votes · 2026
No Lords votes recorded for 2026.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2025-11-05
Prison Services: Insourcing
My Lords, is it not the Minister’s experience that prisons are unlike the outside world and, as I found when I was giving my report into prisons, it is very important to understand those differences? Is there not a danger, if we do not continue to allow
2022-10-18
Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022
I am really rather surprised at what the Minister says. I have sat in courts for many years. To suggest that an expert cannot give an opinion as to what should be the outcome is something I find contrary to everything I remember from my experience, which
2022-10-13
Imprisonment for Public Protection Scheme
My Lords, I look to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Garnier, for a sign that the message has got home. This injustice should never have happened in the first place but, having happened, surely there is a very heavy burden on the state to rectify the inj
2022-06-30
Crime, Reoffending and Rehabilitation
My Lords, it is with some hesitation that I rise to my feet to talk. There was a time—the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, has identified that time—when I knew a lot about prisons. However, that time has long passed and I have now got to a stage where, I am afra
2022-06-09
Probation and Court Services: Workload
Do the figures that the House has been given by the Minister reflect the view of the Lord Chancellor that the approach to probation should include responsibility for giving the views of victims of crime after a person has been convicted?
2022-05-12
Queen’s Speech
My Lords, I am the latest in what I will call the pack of former senior judges who have addressed this debate. I do not propose to do more than to indicate that I agree with everything that they said. On those subjects, I have nothing to usefully add.
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble and learned friend Lord Etherton, in this debate, but it was of great concern to hear what the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, said in his remarks. I am hugely impressed by the other names that have been supporti
2021-11-15
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
I was not intending to contribute to this debate, but I think decency requires me to do so, because looking in the past, I was the person who perhaps failed the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, in persuading him at his time as Home Secretary of the extent of t
I am sorry; could I just add one thing? The noble and learned Lord, Lord Brown, was sitting here wanting to address the Committee. I know without hesitation or doubt that he was going to support the view I was taking. So, I am afraid that we have to bear
My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to speak after the former Master of the Rolls, an office that I held at one time before becoming Lord Chief Justice, on this occasion for the first time. I am yet hoping to hear from another judge who will be speaking
My Lords, I welcome the Government’s action in promoting this Bill, and I hope it will be enacted without delay. In that regard, I was rather concerned to hear the submissions of the noble Lord, Lord Davies, which indicated that perhaps it will not be as
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble and learned friend Lord Garnier. I was going to congratulate the Government on deciding that there should be a royal commission, but I am now nervous as to whether it will be pursued as it should be. Royal c
2021-06-10
Youth Justice Statistics
I refer to my interests in the register that are relevant to this Question. In particular, I refer to my presidency of the Prison Reform Trust. In view of what the Minister rightly said about the concerns in relation to the statistics referred to in the
2021-05-18
Queen’s Speech
One of the proposals included in the gracious Speech is the statement that legislation will be introduced to
“restore the balance of power between the executive, legislature and the courts”.
The suggestion is that certain decisions of the courts on
My Lords, like others, I congratulate the Faulks committee on the work it has done and the circumstances in which it did it. I also indicate that there is at least merit in considering further the two matters which the Government propose to act upon. How
2021-03-22
Hong Kong Courts: British Judges
My Lords, I refer to my entries in the register and my former position as a non-permanent judge of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, and my engagements to establish, and then become, respectively, president and Chief Justice of the commercial courts in
2021-02-09
Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill
My Lords, it has been a privilege to listen to the speeches this afternoon. I have benefited very much from what has been said by all noble Lords and I make these submissions bearing that in mind.
At the moment, I see Clause 35(1) as the most importan
My Lords, it is a pleasure to speak on this matter. I do so from a different perspective to the earlier speakers from whom we have heard so far. I say first that, in my view, the Act was undoubtedly the most constructive and sorely needed legislation of
2021-01-26
Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill
My Lords, in view of the speeches we have had from a number of noble Lords, there is nothing which I would want to detain noble Lords with regarding this amendment. I agree that it serves a useful purpose and particularly associate myself with the remark
2021-01-26
Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Bill
My Lords, I adopt what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, said and will add a few words. Although it was not accepted, I suggest that, from a practical point of view, the other provisions of the Bill would fall within what the Secretary of State
2021-01-26
Serious Criminal Cases Backlog
My Lords, any backlog in the criminal justice system is worrying because it results in delays, and delays breed delays and result in injustice. They must not be allowed to fester because of the damage they can do to the justice system as a whole. This ba
My Lords, it is with satisfaction that I follow the last speaker, because I have very little to say about this Bill, other than that it is clearly in need of drastic treatment.
The Bill has two sides, one in relation to the criminal law and the other
2021-01-06
Law Enforcement: Brexit Impacts
Could the Minister tell me how she will ensure that the new arrangements, which are obviously welcome, are working efficiently and not leading to delays that will hamper the workings of the criminal justice system in this country?
2020-12-10
International Human Rights Day
My Lords, I refer to my interests as disclosed in the register. Does the Minister agree that the reason why this country should wholeheartedly support this United Nations international Human Rights Day is that this country’s unwritten constitution has de
My Lords, I declare my interest as set out in the register, in particular my position as a joint life president of the Prison Reform Trust. Does the Minister accept the contents of that report and, if so, does she agree that, unfortunately, the method of
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Register of Interests · 5 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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LLP Member, West Bar BPRA LLP
registered 2024-01-12 · amended 2025-04-05
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Income from time to time for speeches, lectures, writing articles and contributing to books (including editing) on legal subjects
registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Arbitrator, Mediator, legal consultant and expert (practising from Blackstone Chambers)
registered 2010-04-27 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Solar Growth Limited (renewable energy)
registered 2022-05-20 · amended 2025-04-05
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Solar Dividend Limited (production of electricity)
registered 2022-05-20 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1992-10-01 → present
Crossbench
current
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
2006-03-31 → 2008-11-26
Sub-Committee on Lords' Conduct
2006-11-22 → 2010-04-08
Constitution Committee
2007-11-20 → 2008-11-26
Committee for Privileges and Conduct (Lords)
2013-05-16 → 2014-02-26
Inquiries Act 2005 Committee
2014-11-19 → 2014-12-24
Insurance Bill [HL] Special Public Bill Committee
Chair
+£14,876/yr
2017-07-19 → 2019-07-01
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
2015-07-16 → 2017-04-27
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)
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All-Party Parliamentary Group Friends of the University of Hull
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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