Contentious types were last week (2 March) scrambling for tickets ahead of a discussion on constitutional reform, sponsored by Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG), at Haberdashers’ Hall in London, where the main speaker was Lord Woolf of Barnes, the former Lord Chief Justice.
Woolf famously became the pin-up boy of litigators everywhere after his revolutionary Civil Procedure Rules ensured that even the most contentious billion-pound disputes now routinely settle in five minutes flat over a nice cup of tea and a friendly chat.
