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The Judges: Power, Politics and the People - Episode 8 - Lord Mackay of Clashfern
Lord Mackay of Clashfern is best known as having been Lord Chancellor for 10 years from 1987-97, in the governments of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. An outsider to the English legal profession, he brought in some of its most far-reaching reforms, ending the Bar’s monopoly of advocacy in the higher courts and the solicitors’ monopoly of conveyancing. Lord Mackay has had a distinguished career as an advocate, judge and politician.
In this episode, Lord Mackay speaks about some of the judicial appointments he made, having made some of the most influential judicial appointments of the…
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