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Lord Woolf Retires; Lord Philips Appointed Lord Chief Justice 
Posted on Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 12:00 AM

Lord Woolf retired as Lord Chief Justice on 30 September 2005. The 72-year-old judge is being replaced by current Master of the Rolls, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, on 1st October 2005.

Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers (67) was called to the bar in 1962, took silk in 1978 and was appointed a Recorder in 1982. He was appointed to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court in 1987, and then to the Court of Appeal in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and in 2000 he was appointed Master of the Rolls.

Apart from sitting as a Law Lord, as an appeal judge for a month next year in Hong Kong and continuing to speak in House of Lords debates, Lord Woolf is going to work at his alma mater, University College London.