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Joint Committee on The Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill - Minutes of Evidence Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss: It was not a judicial decision. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss: I think we ought to be able to treat that as contempt, and say, "you pay, otherwise you go inside"; but to treat it as a civil debt means they have got to go to the county court and they have got to enforce it. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss: I do not think there will be anything private about the fact that I have been—and I expect that Joyanne has also been saying very firmly to the Government departments that we must bring family assistance orders into this Bill. www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/jt200405/jtselect/jtchilcon/100/50224a13.htm   (1397 words)

Sloss Fright Furnace -- Recommendations and Resources 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. The SLOSS Debate was a debate in ecology and conservation biology during the 1970s and 1980s as to whether a Single Large or Several Small (SLOSS) reserves was a superior means of conserving biodiversity in a fragmented habitat. Sloss iron won a bronze medal at the Southern Exposition held in 1883 at Louisville, Kentucky. www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/133/sloss-fright-furnace.html   (1378 words)

Telegraph News Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, president of the High Court Family Division and Britain's longest-serving judge, is promoted from Dame Commander of the British Empire to the more exclusive rank of Dame Grand Cross, or GBE. Dame Elizabeth is the daughter of a judge and sister of a former Lord Chancellor. Although Dame Elizabeth's predecessor was appointed GBE on his retirement as president of the Family Division, her honour is seen as a reward for standing up to the personal abuse she and other family judges have received from pressure groups such as Fathers 4 Justice. www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/31/nhpub131.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/12/31/ixhome.html   (438 words)

0210.htm Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, a Court of Appeal judge, is the frontrunner to become the most senior family law judge when Sir Stephen Brown retires this autumn. Dame Elizabeth, 65, who won all-round praise for her handling of the Cleveland child abuse inquiry in 1987 and 1988, is believed to have been informally sounded out. Dame Elizabeth, who is sister to the late Lord Chancellor, Lord Havers, and aunt to the actor Nigel Havers, became a High Court judge in 1979 at the age of 46. www.lawteacher.net /Articles/0210.htm   (558 words)

One Man In Six 'A Victim Of Domestic Violence' Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, president of the Family Division of the High Court, said she was concerned that 10 per cent of young women "thought it was acceptable to hit their partner". Dame Elizabeth said that her office was working closely with the Crown Prosecution Service to find ways of sharing information between criminal and civil proceedings concerning cases of domestic violence. Although one in four women, Dame Elizabeth said, would be a victim of domestic violence, and 120 women were killed by a current or former partner every year, 30 men were killed each year in similar circumstances. www.rense.com /general42/onein.htm   (514 words)

University of the West of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Chancellor of UWE is the Rt Hon Lady Justice Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, DBE. The Rt Hon Lady Justice Elizabeth Butler-Sloss DBE The main Frenchay campus is situated close to the M32 motorway, twenty minutes walk from the well-connected Bristol Parkway railway station; from there, Cardiff is half an hour away, and Birmingham one hour and fifteen minutes. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_the_West_of_England   (536 words)

Employment news for Butler The Butler County coroner identified the victim as Marc Hudson, 36, of Bethel. Butler turnovers prove costly Nov 8, 2004 2 seed in the Horizon League during the regular season, the Butler mens soccer team took the first step toward an NCAA Tournament bid Saturday. Butler didn't do it: Cowley men, women win Nov 8, 2004...in front of a near capacity crowd, the Cowley College men's basketball team shot 61.3 percent in the second half and slipped past Butler Community College 86... www.jobtitles.net /B/Butler.html   (1730 words)

Guardian Unlimited The Guardian The Guardian profile: Elizabeth Butler-Sloss She was born Elizabeth Havers 71 years ago into an illustrious legal family, her father the high court judge who passed the death sentence on Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain. In 1970, when Dame Elizabeth went on the bench, many fathers just opted out of the battle and out of their children's lives. Her journey began at the age of 36 as a comparatively lowly divorce registrar, followed by promotion to high court judge at 45, and later the accolade of first woman in the court of appeal and the first to head a high court division, one of the four top judicial posts in England and Wales. www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1349171,00.html   (1770 words)

Guardian Butler-Sloss criticises fathers group Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, the president of the family division of the high court, criticised the group, whose members climbed the walls of Buckingham Palace and threw flour bombs at Tony Blair in the House of Commons. Dame Elizabeth denied the system was biased against fathers, while conceding in written evidence to the committee, chaired by the Liberal Democrat MP Alan Beith, that "the present system is open to criticism, much of it well-founded". Dame Elizabeth and Mr Justice Munby signalled the possibility that family courts, where almost all cases are heard behind closed doors, could be opened more widely. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5059197-105248,00.html   (478 words)

Family Justice: Family Courts Inquiry (9 November 2004) Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss: The trouble is that if the mother says that the father has been guilty of domestic violence or is not suitable to care for the child, you have got to deal with it and, therefore, you cannot make an interim order until you have dealt with it. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss: As you appreciate, I am sure, the DCA is now looking at this and I understand that in the Children's Bill there is a clause that is going to deal with the problem of rule 4.23 of the family procedure rules. Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss: If I found it and I found a judge, in those circumstances, was actually allowing unsupervised contact where the father was dangerous, I would consider whether I would take his Family Law ticket away. www.parents4protest.co.uk /_private/inquiry_transcripts_nov9.htm   (15395 words)

International News U.K. Judge Rules Couple May Keep Twins Resulting From Fertility Clinic Error - Kaisernetwork.org Judge Elizabeth Butler Sloss said that the twins, who are now believed to be more than two years old, should not be removed from their "happy and loving" home with the white couple, known as Mr. Although Butler Sloss maintained the anonymity of the families involved, she revealed that the error had occurred at the Assisted Conception Unit at Leeds General Infirmary in northern England (Dyer, According to the judge, the error occurred when the fertility clinic mistakenly fertilized the woman's eggs with the sperm of a black man who was undergoing fertility procedures with his wife on the same day. www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=14445   (356 words)

Pakistan Link Headlines ISLAMABAD (SANA) : The head of the British group of Judges, Dame Elizabeth Butler Sloss has termed the accord signed between the Judges of UK and Pakistan, stating that courts would protect children of the estranged parents touring between UK and Pakistan and would ascertain their coming back, as a remarkable achievement. Elizabeth said the accord has achieved the ability to be passed around the judges at the lower levels. Elizabeth said that some of these girls have already been sent back by Chief Justice Gilani. www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/oct03/02/15.html   (529 words)

Re_A (medical treatment: male sterilisation) [2000] I have had the advantage of reading in draft the judgment of Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss P. I agree that this appeal must be dismissed and I agree with all that she says. The facts are set out in the judgment of Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss P. Allan Levy QC and Jane Mischon for the appellant; Robert Francis QC for the Official Solicitor. I have had the advantage of reading the judgments of Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss P and Thorpe LJ in draft. www.cirp.org /library/legal/Re_A2000   (6270 words)

A family affair - 9 September 2002 Dame Elizabeth was first thrust into the public eye when she chaired the Cleveland child abuse inquiry in 1987-88, for which she received much acclaim. Dame Elizabeth was born into the law: her father, Sir Cecil Havers, sentenced Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in this country, and she was sister to the late Lord Chancellor Lord Havers (which makes her aunt to the actor Nigel Havers). Dame Elizabeth's media profile, always high, has never been quite so high as when she chaired the crown appointments committee that recently selected the liberal Rowan Williams as successor to George Carey as Archbishop of Canterbury. www.thelawyer.com /cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=77304   (2071 words)

Gay News From 365Gay.com In a lecture at King's College London, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss said gay and lesbian relationships need to be recognized by law and that the transgendered should have the right to marry in their corrected gender. Dame Elizabeth said couples who could not marry had no recourse to a system of law that would protect them if they formed "partnerships, sometimes lifelong, which in their turn create a family structure". www.365gay.com /NewsContent/040503ukMarriage.htm   (201 words)

Cleveland Judge Elilzabeth Butler-Sloss Sex Scandal Joseph Butler-Sloss, a High Court judge working in Nairobi, Kenya, has confessed that he regularly pays for sex with local hookers. Dame Elizabeth lives at the marital home, a farmhouse in six acres near Exeter, where her hunting husband served as joint master of the East Devon Foxhounds. His wife Dame Elizabeth, 54, is Britain's first and only woman Appeal Court Judge. www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk /zbbsloss1.htm   (282 words)

BBC News UK Dame Elizabeth: UK's top woman judge Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss is the UK's most senior female judge and presides over many ethical dilemmas. Dame Elizabeth, 68, has allowed a conscious but paralysed woman to have her hospital life-support system switched off, in what she termed an "agonising" case. Dame Elizabeth, who went to Wycombe Abbey School but never to university, was called to the Bar in 1955. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1887194.stm   (546 words)

The Scotsman - Opinion - Leaders - The woman who wants to die Crowded round her hospital bed yesterday were no fewer than ten lawyers, plus the judge, Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, president of the High Court’s Family Division. Dame Elizabeth has responded swiftly to adjudicate on the woman’s request, and the law provides reasonable guidance on the issues. This is not particularly dignified, but the speed with which the court has heard the case suggests that for once the legal system is showing a degree of compassion. thescotsman.scotsman.com /leaders.cfm?id=253802002   (386 words)

CNN.com - Test decide parentage of twins - July 31, 2002 A is not their biological father," High Court Judge Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss said in a statement issued Wednesday. A because of a legal injunction against naming those involved in the case. archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/31/britain.ivmixup   (293 words)