An uncommon lawyer

Lord Woolf writes his memoirs

It was in February 1986 that I first asked Harry Woolf for an interview. We were both on a train to Manchester, he to deliver a lecture on judicial review and I to record some of it for broadcast on my radio programme Law in Action.

That was the only way my listeners would be able to hear his voice. Though 1986 was the year in which Woolf joined the Cour…