Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss , GBE (born Havers , born August 10, 1933 in Kew Gardens, Richmond , Surrey ) is a retired British judge. She was the first female judge on the Court of Appeal .
Activity as a judge
After visiting the Wycombe Abbey School , the daughter of the judge began on High Court of Justice Cecil Havers studying law and was admitted as a 1,955 lawyer and practiced this profession until 1970 from.
In 1970 she first became a Divorce Registrar at the High Court of Justice, before she was appointed judge in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice in 1979 . After Elizabeth Lane , Rose Heilbron and Margaret Booth, she was only the fourth woman to be appointed to the High Court as a judge. Most recently, she was presiding judge between 1987 and 1988 in the Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal , which involved alleged child abuse of over 100 children in Cleveland .
In 1988 she was the first woman to be appointed judge at the Court of Appeal for England and Wales , the so-called Court of Appeal , making her the first female Lord Justice of Appeal . After more than eleven years of service, she returned to the High Court of Justice in 1999, where she was President of the Family Division until her retirement in January 2005; also in this position she was the first woman and until the appointment of Brenda Hale as Lord Judge in 2004 the highest ranking female judge in the United Kingdom. In 2014 she left the court service.
Butler-Sloss has also been Chancellor of the University of the West of England (UWE) since 1993 .
Political activities
In addition to her career as a lawyer to Butler-Sloss applied in 1959 as a candidate of the Conservative Party for a parliamentary seat in the lower house ( House of Commons ) in the constituency Lambeth However, this was subject to the candidate of the Labor Party .
Nobility
At the time of her appointment as High Court Judge in 1979, she was also ennobled as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) . In June 2006, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was raised as Baroness Butler-Sloss , of Marsh Green in the County of Devon, to a life peeress and is thus a member of the higher British nobility . Because of this title she is a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) . On the occasion of her resignation from the court service, she was elevated to the Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) on December 31, 2014 .
In September 2006, she also became Deputy Coroner of the Queen's Household, and in this role she headed the investigations into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed until June 2007 .
Personal
Butler-Sloss has three children. Her son Robert Joseph Neville Galmoye Butler-Sloss (born July 15, 1962) is married to Sarah Jane Sainsbury, the daughter of Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover , the former managing director of Sainsbury's .
She is the sister of the former Lord Chancellor Michael Havers, Baron Havers, who died in 1992 .
Web links
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary , p. 250, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
- Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
Individual evidence
- ^ The London Gazette : No. 57509 (Supplement), p. 7 , December 31, 2004.
- ^ Great dynasties of the world: The Sainsburys . The Guardian. October 16, 2010. Accessed April 26, 2020.
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| SURNAME | Butler-Sloss, Elizabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Butler-Sloss, Ann Elizabeth Oldfield, Baroness Butler-Sloss (full name); Havers, Ann Elizabeth Oldfield (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kew Gardens, Richmond , Surrey , England |