Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Butler-Sloss GBE PC |
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President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice |
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In office 1999 – April 2005 |
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| Succeeded by | Sir Mark Potter |
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In office 1988–1999 |
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High Court judge (Family Division) |
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In office 1979–1988 |
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Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Havers 10 August 1933 Buckinghamshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Joseph William Alexander Butler-Sloss (m. 1958) |
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Sir Cecil Havers (father) Lord Havers (brother) Nigel Havers (nephew) Philip Havers (nephew) |
| Children | Frances (b. 1959) Robert (b. 1962) William (b. 1967) |
| Religion | Anglican |
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, GBE, PC (née Havers; born 10 August 1933), is a retired English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and, until 2004, was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom. Until June 2007, she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed. She stood down from that task with effect from that date, and the inquest was conducted by Lord Justice Scott Baker.
The daughter of Sir Cecil Havers, a judge, and Enid Flo Havers (née Snelling), she was sister to the late, and controversial, Lord Chancellor, The Lord Havers, and is aunt to his sons, the actor Nigel Havers and the barrister Philip Havers. She 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. She passed the bar despite not possessing university degree.
She stood as the Conservative candidate for Vauxhall in the 1959 General Election, where she won 38% of the vote but was defeated by the Labour MP George Strauss.
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