Presiding judge Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, suggested that the shot would have had to be "extraordinarily accurate".

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Lord Woolf stepped down as lord chief justice last September and will soon be spending a month sitting as an appeal court judge in Hong Kong.

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Watch out for three key amendments emanating from the Conservative peer and former Master of the Rolls, Lord Woolf, and the crossbench peer and QC Lord Pannick.

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