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The Times
April 19 2000
Court shake-up
BY RICHARD FORD, HOME CORRESPONDENT
LORD Bingham of Cornhill, the Lord Chief Justice, is to take over as head of the law lords in a move designed to create a US-style supreme court before the Human Rights Act comes into force in October.
The decision, disclosed in The Times last week, will boost the strength of the House of Lords as the final court of appeal, especially as from October its 12 law lords will be the arbiters of a host of key social and political issues.
Lord Bingham's successor as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is to be Lord Woolf, 66, the present Master of the Rolls, the Prime Minister announced last night. His post will go to Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, 62.
