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	Cherie Blair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cherie Blair QC (born in Bury, Greater Manchester on September 23, 1954) is the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
		Booth unsuccessfully contested the seat of North Thanet in Kent at the 1983 UK general election, while her husband was selected at the last minute for a safe seat in Sedgefield, County Durham in the same election.
		Booth became a barrister in 1976 and Queen's Counsel in 1995.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cherie_Booth (748 words)

	Tinuviel- Cherie Booth
		Booth unsuccessfully contested the seat of North Thanet in Kent at the 1983 UK general election, while her husband was selected at the last minute for a safe seat in Sedgefield, County Durham in the same election.
		Cherie Booth has claimed in the Court of Appeal that the school that stopped Muslim pupil wearing a full-length Islamic gown (burqa) breached her human rights.
		Booth said the case involved fundamental issues about the interpretation of Shabina's rights to education and freedom to practise her religion.
	www.tinuviel.ch /booth.htm (502 words)

	Cherie Blair -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When Cherie was an adult, her stepmother was actress (Click link for more info and facts about Patricia Phoenix) Patricia Phoenix, but she was only such for a short time before she died of lung cancer.
		Booth tried to distance herself from Foster and briefed the press office at Number 10 to go public with a statement claiming that Foster was not involved with the deal to buy the two flats.
		In May 2000, it was revealed that Cherie is related to (United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)) John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated (16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)) Abraham Lincoln.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/cherie_blair.htm (577 words)

	Cherie Booth's role in Cyprus land dispute angers president \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		Cherie Booth's role in Cyprus land dispute angers president
		The spat erupted after Ms Booth's chambers, Matrix, confirmed at the weekend that she would be heading the defence of David and Linda Orams, the couple ordered by a Greek Cypriot court last year to demolish their home in Turkish-run northern Cyprus.
		Ms Booth's involvement became known after the test case was lodged by Mr Apostolides' lawyer with the high court in London.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /cherie/story/0,12713,1670563,00.html (497 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Cherie Booth's achievement so far is that, as a feminist, she has managed to adapt the traditional role of Prime Minister's wife to allow a degree of independence, carefully choosing when to step out of her husband's shadow - for instance, on domestic violence or parental leave.
		In addition, she is calling for grants to small employers to encourage them to accept this proposal; increased benefits to low-income families and a baby tax credit to help with the expense of childcare for the very young, or to enable a parent to remain at home for the first year.
		Cherie is returning to work in September as one of 22 barristers in the newly created Matrix Chambers, dealing primarily with human rights issues.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4020644,00.html (1073 words)

	University of Pittsburgh at Bradford > Visitors Center > Media Center > Press Releases Archive > May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		GREGORY W. – Greg Booth and his wife, Cherie, front, created the Gregory W. Booth Family Scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford to help students who are hearing impaired or have other physical challenges because their son Brett, far left, a 2001 alumnus, is hearing impaired.
		Booth and his wife wanted the new scholarship to benefit students who face physical challenges because their son Brett, 26, who graduated from Pitt-Bradford and now works for Eli Lilly and Co., is hearing impaired.
		Booth also said he wanted to help Pitt-Bradford since he is also a member of the Advisory Board and because he has watched the campus take shape since its beginning 40 years ago.
	www.upb.pitt.edu /visitors/media_center/press_releases/archive/may_04/booth.htm (546 words)

	Cherie Booth announces Loomba Trust in US : HindustanTimes.com/UK: News for UK Asians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cherie Booth, QC announced the US Launch of the Loomba Trust at the 60th Anniversary Celebration of the United Nations in New York, in the presence of the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan.
		Ms Booth hopes to raise awareness of the hundreds of millions of widows and their children throughout the world's developing nations, many of whom are forced from their homes and denied access to essential resources.
		Booth said, "We hope to raise awareness of the living conditions of widows in developing countries and to aid in finding a solution to this injustice against women.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/5983_1529065,00430005.htm (503 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 Wednesday - First lady of Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the tender age of 14 Cherie Booth told the girls in her class she wanted to be the first woman Prime Minister.
		The revelation that Cherie Blair (Cherie Booth when working as a lawyer) has been bestowed with such powers has proved to be malicious manna for her opponents.
		It was a convenient subject on which to proffer opinions, not least because she was in the process of establishing a new chambers to deal precisely with cases which might arise from the incorporation of the new act.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=493292002 (1831 words)

	Cherie Blair
		Cherie Blair QC (born September 23, 1954), best known as the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, is a successful lawyer.
		She won a pupillage in the chambers of Derry Irvine ahead of him, although he was taken on part-time.
		Cherie Blair unsuccessfully contested the seat of North Thanet in Kent at the 1983 general election, while her husband was selected at the last minute for a safe seat in Sedgefield, County Durham in the same election.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/cherie_blair.html (343 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| Cherie Booth pleads to keep mothers out of jail
		Cherie Booth QC today called for mothers convicted of petty and non-violent crimes to be spared jail in order to improve the welfare and wellbeing of their children.
		Ms Booth called for urgent action to improve support and resettlement services for the thousands of mothers in prisons and their families.
		Ms Booth said: "When you consider that over a quarter of prisoners themselves have been in care as children and many more lack a stable family life, it is very concerning what problems we may be storing up for the future.
	society.guardian.co.uk /crimeandpunishment/story/0,8150,1215065,00.html (704 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Cherie Booth leads Gurkhas' human rights claim on army pay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cherie Booth QC, the wife of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, led the courtroom campaign, saying there was a continuing breach of their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.
		Ms Booth told Mr Justice Sullivan at the start of a four-day hearing: "We say it is part of the culture of the British Army in which, on the one hand, Gurkhas are acknowledged to be brave fighters who have provided loyal service to the Crown for nearly 200 years...
		Ms Booth told the judge that the pay of Gurkhas serving currently in the army was virtually the same as that of a British soldier, while they served together, because of a "universal allowance" which made up 95 per cent of what they received.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=210022003 (829 words)

	Cherie Booth, QC, labours on in the High Court
		Cherie Booth, QC - Mrs Blair retains her maiden name in professional life - asked the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Bingham, to rule that Stephen Byers, the Trade and Industry Secretary, acted illegally in depriving 2.7 million parents of unpaid parental leave during their children's early years.
		The relief on Miss Booth's face as she sat down suggested the gratitude, finally, was hers.
		Miss Booth told the court that of 15 EU member states, only four had joined Britain in interpreting the parental leave directive unfavourably to parents of children already born or adopted before its implementation.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/05/17/nboot17.html (765 words)

	Cherie Booth appointed Emeritus Chancellor
		To follow her successful term of office, Cherie Booth was installed as an Emeritus Chancellor (an honorary position) on Wednesday 26 July 2006, during one of LJMU's graduation ceremonies at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.
		He continued: "Chancellor Cherie Booth has overseen great developments in the University activities and standing and now she will be supporting LJMU as Chancellor Emeritus as we undertake great changes in the experience we offer our students in terms of skills development.
		Cherie Booth explained: "There is a growing sense of excitement and pride in Liverpool, both in the UK and internationally, and its success in becoming the European Capital of Culture in 2008 has had enormous knock-on benefits for the University too.
	www.livjm.ac.uk /NewsCentre/82863.htm (514 words)

	The Barrister
		Cherie Booth, who this year judged the regional heat at Snaresbrook Crown Court, declared it a great honour to be giving the lecture in honour of Lord Hooper, professing tremendous admiration and respect for him.
		Cherie conveyed that by educating people that fair trial rights both address this power imbalance, and also offer protection to victims and witnesses, the myth that they hinder individuals can be dispelled.
		Cherie’s final suggestion was not one of how to educate the people, but the responsibility that needs to be fulfilled by public bodies and officials.
	www.barristermagazine.com /articles/issue27/cherieboothqc.html (1406 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society \| Cherie Booth to speak out on prison overcrowding
		But Ms Booth's speech, albeit delivered at the invitation of the Independent newspaper and the Penal Reform Trust, which are sponsoring the Longford lectures, comes at a time when the prime minister's wife has faced criticism for involving herself in political issues.
		Ms Booth last week announced she would be hosting a reception for Israeli victims of terrorism at the behest of an Jewish charity following the remarks.
		Ms Booth also calls on drug addicts to be given better support after they leave prison, saying: "There is little point in drying out addicts in jail only to send them unsupported back into the community.
	www.societyguardian.co.uk /crimeandpunishment/story/0,8150,752680,00.html (466 words)

	Matrix Chambers - Who We Are - Members - Cherie Booth QC - What Others Say
		The "incredibly sharp" Cherie Booth QC is said to be "extremely good in public law work."' Her practice has involved local authorities, individuals and companies.
		Cherie Booth QC cuts a wide swathe in employment and education, acting on leading cases such as R v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry ex parte Trade Unions Congress, which concerns parental leave.'
		Cherie Booth QC appeared in the Lords' case R (on the application of L) v Governors of J School, for a pupil excluded for violent behaviour then isolated on his return.' (
	www.matrixlaw.co.uk /WhoWeAre_Members_CherieBoothQC_WhatOthersSay.aspx (431 words)

	Mrs. Bush's Remarks at Komen Foundation Event in Dallas
		Cherie is a great advocate to have on your side, and we're glad to have her avid support for this cause.
		Cherie told me about her work with Breast Cancer Care, an organization that supports more than a half- million people in the United Kingdom whose lives have been affected by breast cancer, and of course, I told her about my association with the Komen Foundation.
		Cherie thought it would be fun if she and I worked together to raise money for breast cancer awareness and research in both our countries.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2002/04/20020404-13.html (531 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Cherie Blair - The secrets of Cherie Blair's new lifestyle guru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Now, in her first interview, Cherie Blair’s new guru reveals that it was her younger son’s severe autism that inspired her to explore alternative therapy and develop an array of techniques which have London’s smart set flocking to her consulting room.
		Rory Bremner publicly credits her with curing an allergy problem, while Cherie Blair is a regular visitor to Curtin’s clinic in Fulham, with its lilac-painted walls and polished, wooden floors.
		Cherie Blair’s treatments are likely to have started with autonomic response therapy, a method of diagnosing what may be wrong with the client, and to have progressed with thought-field therapy (a tool to remove the "heightened emotions that get attached to traumatic memories") or gemstone therapy.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=427&id=1463042004 (1405 words)

	IHRC - Cherie Booth’s Cultural Crusade
		IHRC is deeply concerned that the statements of Cherie Booth (and Laura Bush in the USA), have contributed to the culture of demonisation and hatred that Muslims currently face both nationally and internationally.
		Cherie Booth’s press conference yesterday at which she was pictured spoofing women who wear the burqa is a sad indictment of the descent of human rights talk to the level of propaganda and prejudiced ridicule.
		For Cherie Booth to ridicule the whole Islamic culture and denigrate all Islamic dress is as repellent and oppressive as the Taleban forcing women to wear burqa.
	www.ihrc.org.uk /show.php?id=14 (522 words)

	CHERIE BOOTH QC CITES CHILDREN AS EQUALS
		Leading human rights lawyer Cherie Booth called today (Tuesday 24 September) for the UK government to appoint a Children's Rights Commissioner.
		Cherie Booth was appointed President of Barnardo’s in 2001.
		Booth’s lecture was reported in the U.K. national press the following day.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /childrensstudies/cheriebooth.htm (249 words)

	AM Archive - Booth apologises for bomber statement
		With that suggestion, Cherie Booth, prominent British human rights lawyer and the wife of Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, might have thought she was trying to explain though not justify terrorism, but that's not how her critics saw it.
		CHERIE BOOTH: As long as young people feel they’ve got no hope and have to blow themselves up, we’re never going to make progress are we.
		MATT PEACOCK: A spokeswoman for Cherie Booth later said that she was obviously sorry if any offence was taken from the interpretation of her comments.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s585399.htm (422 words)

	Cherie Booth backs restorative justice \| Breaking News \| News \| Telegraph
		Cherie Booth will call today for a huge increase of face-to-face justice, in which criminals meet their victims and apologise for their offences.
		Miss Booth said that when she sentenced an offender she often wondered whether the person felt any remorse for the crime or the effect it had on the victim.
		Miss Booth’s intervention in the law-and-order debate is based on her 10 years sitting in courts as a recorder when she has had to sentence offenders.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/14/nbooth114.xml (366 words)

	Cherie Booth hits out at US over international court
		Cherie Booth stepped into controversy last night by making an outspoken speech critical of the US administration for failing to join the international criminal court, which is being set up to deter widescale human rights abuses.
		Ms Booth, a QC, said: "The impact of the US failure to support the ICC may be symbolically important - a high-profile rejection of a major initiative for the rule of law in international affairs.
		Ms Booth was speaking at an Institute of Contemporary History conference looking at international criminal justice from the Nuremberg trials after the second world war through to the present day.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/6-12-2002-20336.asp (834 words)

	ekathimerini.com \| Cherie Booth honored at luncheon in Athens’s Hotel Grande Bretagne
		Cherie Booth’s visit to Greece was, for reasons of security, a lightning one and so could not be given the publicity it deserved.
		Booth’s speech to the luncheon focused on the work of the charity Scope, which aims at full equality for people with disabilities seeking equal opportunities at work, in recreation and, of course, sport.
		Booth stayed at the British Embassy during her visit, the guest of the British ambassador and his family, with their collection of 17 cats from Cyprus and Athens.
	www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_18310_25/09/2004_47706 (194 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Blair's wife Cherie backs U.S. court on Guantanamo detentions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cherie Booth, a prominent human rights lawyer, has been touring the United States to promote her book, "The Goldfish Bowl," but has generally avoided commenting on American politics.
		Booth called the decision "profoundly important" and a "significant victory for human rights and the international rule of law," The Mail on Sunday reported.
		Blair's 10 Downing St. office said Booth had been speaking in her capacity as a lawyer and not as the prime minister's wife.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/10/31/blairs_wife_cherie_backs_us_court_on_guantanamo_detentions?mode=PF (448 words)

	The Insider - Hypocrisy of British Prime Minister's wife is exposed
		Cherie Booth QC, a prominent judge and barrister, and wife of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is under investigation for abusing her position to influence Members of Parliament and obtain their support for the war on Iraq.
		Cherie Booth QC is being investigated by her professional body over a claim that she lobbied female MPs before a crucial vote in the House of Commons on whether to go to war with Iraq.
		Ms Booth concedes that a wider rule governing the general behaviour of barristers could cover the allegation that she canvassed MPs.
	theinsider.org /news/article.asp?id=387 (1035 words)

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