Time was when Lord Woolf was not a happy bunny. Indeed, the Lord Chief Justice was so angry at the way the Government went about reforming the constitution that he indulged in some highly inflammatory language to attack the plans.
However, as this column anticipated in the summer of 2003, the current Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, has been working overtime to heal the wounds so carelessly inflicted by Tony Blair. By all accounts he has been furiously lunching judges in his efforts to convince them that the Government really does care about the independence of the judiciary.
