Elizabeth Butler-Sloss

The Right Honourable Dame Anne Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, GBE (born 10 August 1933), was a British judge, President of the Family Division of the UK family law system. She was the first woman to hold this position.

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The Right Honourable - GBE - 10 August - 1933 - Family law

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Born Anne Elizabeth Oldfield Havers, she was the daughter of the judge Sir Cecil Havers and sister of the Lord Chancellor Lord Havers, and was called to the bar from the Inner Temple in 1955. In 1958 she married Joseph Butler-Sloss. She became the first woman appointed as a Justice of the Court of Appeal in 1988, having in the previous year chaired the Cleveland Child Abuse Inquiry.

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Sir Cecil Havers - Lord Chancellor - Lord Havers - Inner Temple - 1955 - 1958 - Court of Appeal - 1988 - Cleveland Child Abuse Inquiry

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She was raised to the rank of Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours List published on 31 December 2004. On 12 January 2005 it was announced that she was retiring, being replaced as President of the Division by Lord Justice Potter, a Lord Justice of Appeal.

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Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire - 31 December - 2004 - 12 January - 2005 - Lord Justice Potter

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