Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf has become a tenant at Blackstone Chambers. Woolf, who retired this month, will train as a mediator before joining the set’s group of mediators, which includes former head of chambers Presiley Baxendale QC.

Woolf has also been taken on as an adviser to the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) and will sit as the first chairman of CEDR’s new International Conflict Management Advisory Group.