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13 Facts About Elizabeth Butler-Sloss

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Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC, is a retired English judge.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom until 2004, when Baroness Hale was appointed to the House of Lords.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss stood down from that task with effect from that date, and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was educated at Broomfield House School in Kew, in West London, and Wycombe Abbey School in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, followed by a year at the University of Lausanne.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1955.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was appointed a Registrar at the Principal Registry of the Family Division in 1970.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was known officially as "Lord Justice Butler-Sloss" until Bingham MR issued a practice direction in 1994 to refer to her informally as "Lady Justice Butler-Sloss"; the official title in s2 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 was amended by the Courts Act 2003.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was advanced to the rank of Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2005 New Year Honours.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was created Baroness Butler-Sloss, of Marsh Green in the County of Devon, on 13 June 2006, sitting as a crossbencher.

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Elizabeth Butler-Sloss became Chancellor of the University of the West of England in 1993 and an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, King's College London, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

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12.

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was Chairman of the Security Commission prior to its abolition in 2010.

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Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss' arms are a version of the arms borne by her brother, Michael Havers, Baron Havers.

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