In brief: Woolf receives Legal Personality Award

Lord Woolf, winner of the The Lawyer/HIFAL Awards Personality of the Year, receiving his prize from Jayne Bowtell, director of legal recruitment company Reuter Simkin, which sponsored the award. Lord Woolf, soon to publish his extensive blueprint for the reform of the civil courts, headed the line-up of 15 winners at the awards night in London. Woolf said afterwards: “I was very honoured to receive the award.”