ABSTRACT

Jeremy Fleming, 'Civil justice reforms' (2000) Gazette, 28 April, p 18 It is hard not to be impressed by Lord Woolf s modesty. There are few judges who, while alive at least, have given their names to major overhauls of a judicial system, yet despite this and the fresh news that he will be promoted to Lord Chief Justice in June, the current Master of the Rolls seems relaxed and unstuffy.

This month's MaRl poll findings-indicating that 80% of solicitors are content with the Civil Procedure Rules-have relieved him, but he acknowledges that there are still danger zones.