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Top 100 Lawyers Part One,
1. Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, pictured above, was a clear favourite for our No 1 slot this year. Last year’s Lord Chief Justice is now the senior law lord, heading the highest court in the land. Lord Phillips, 71, is actually now lower in the judicial hierarchy than last year as senior law lord, ranking below the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Judge). But with the opening of the UK’s Supreme Court in the autumn he holds an unrivalled position of influence at the apex of the judiciary. Set to become the court’s first president, Lord Phillips will lead the 12 justices who make legal and constitutional history as they begin work in their new court that is independent and physically separate from the legislature. The broadcasting of appeals is just one groundbreaking reform he is expected to oversee; but it will be how he shapes the delivery and content of decisions that will count most. Lord Phillips, who went to Bryanston School (where he is chairman of governors) and King’s College, Cambridge, has held the three top judicial posts: Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and now senior law lord.
2. Lord Judge, 68, is the most senior criminal judge in England and Wales: he finally secured the position after being pipped to the post last time round by Lord Phillips. Highly popular with fellow judges, he has steered a steady course through the choppy waters of the controversial proposals for a sentencing commission and looks likely to achieve the flexibility judges want. But he is ready to go public if needs be: at the annual judges’ dinner he launched a two-pronged attack — on the volume of legislation and on ministers’ plans for an outside body to scrutinise MPs' standards and expenses. That, he warned, could risk a constitutional clash between judges and the legislature if its decisions came before the courts. Born in Malta, he went to the Oratory School, Woodcote, Berkshire, and Cambridge. Kindly but tough, traditionalist but pragmatic, he has backed moves to make the judiciary more diverse and expressed concern that people see it as “fustian” and “old-fashioned”. He has cautioned against longer jail terms without calculating the costs involved but gave the go-ahead for the first non-jury criminal trial. He is just in to his stride. We can expect to hear more.
3. Jack Straw, as Lord Chancellor and first Secretary of State for Justice, still wields huge power at the pinnacle of the justice system. Policy on courts, legal aid, prisons and the Probation Service, sentencing, the criminal law and constitutional affairs all come under his patch. He also carries much weight in government, and at points of crisis is regularly named as likely caretaker leader were Gordon Brown to go. He is overseeing cuts across the justice system of £1,070 million over three years, including £200 million from the legal aid budget; and has opened up the family courts to the media. Skilful and experienced, he is now the “father” of the Cabinet (he is 63 in August); he has been both Home and Foreign Secretary as well as Leader of the Commons.He went to Leeds University and was active in student politics, famously serving as president of the National Union of Students from 1969 to 1971. A year later he was called to the Bar but that career was shortlived. He is the first full-blooded politician to be Lord Chancellor. He has paradoxically had a much better working relationship with the judges than his career-barrister predecessor, Lord Falconer of Thoroton.
1. Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, pictured above, was a clear favourite for our No 1 slot this year. Last year’s Lord Chief Justice is now the senior law lord, heading the highest court in the land. Lord Phillips, 71, is actually now lower in the judicial hierarchy than last year as senior law lord, ranking below the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Judge). But with the opening of the UK’s Supreme Court in the autumn he holds an unrivalled position of influence at the apex of the judiciary. Set to become the court’s first president, Lord Phillips will lead the 12 justices who make legal and constitutional history as they begin work in their new court that is independent and physically separate from the legislature. The broadcasting of appeals is just one groundbreaking reform he is expected to oversee; but it will be how he shapes the delivery and content of decisions that will count most. Lord Phillips, who went to Bryanston School (where he is chairman of governors) and King’s College, Cambridge, has held the three top judicial posts: Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice and now senior law lord.
2. Lord Judge, 68, is the most senior criminal judge in England and Wales: he finally secured the position after being pipped to the post last time round by Lord Phillips. Highly popular with fellow judges, he has steered a steady course through the choppy waters of the controversial proposals for a sentencing commission and looks likely to achieve the flexibility judges want. But he is ready to go public if needs be: at the annual judges’ dinner he launched a two-pronged attack — on the volume of legislation and on ministers’ plans for an outside body to scrutinise MPs' standards and expenses. That, he warned, could risk a constitutional clash between judges and the legislature if its decisions came before the courts. Born in Malta, he went to the Oratory School, Woodcote, Berkshire, and Cambridge. Kindly but tough, traditionalist but pragmatic, he has backed moves to make the judiciary more diverse and expressed concern that people see it as “fustian” and “old-fashioned”. He has cautioned against longer jail terms without calculating the costs involved but gave the go-ahead for the first non-jury criminal trial. He is just in to his stride. We can expect to hear more.
3. Jack Straw, as Lord Chancellor and first Secretary of State for Justice, still wields huge power at the pinnacle of the justice system. Policy on courts, legal aid, prisons and the Probation Service, sentencing, the criminal law and constitutional affairs all come under his patch. He also carries much weight in government, and at points of crisis is regularly named as likely caretaker leader were Gordon Brown to go. He is overseeing cuts across the justice system of £1,070 million over three years, including £200 million from the legal aid budget; and has opened up the family courts to the media. Skilful and experienced, he is now the “father” of the Cabinet (he is 63 in August); he has been both Home and Foreign Secretary as well as Leader of the Commons.He went to Leeds University and was active in student politics, famously serving as president of the National Union of Students from 1969 to 1971. A year later he was called to the Bar but that career was shortlived. He is the first full-blooded politician to be Lord Chancellor. He has paradoxically had a much better working relationship with the judges than his career-barrister predecessor, Lord Falconer of Thoroton.