| As the most senior family law judge in the UK, Dame Elizabeth
Butler-Sloss must bear major responsibility for the circumstances men and fathers find
themselves in, as described elsewhere (mainly in publications) on this website. She is reported to have said, regarding obstruction to contact [by mothers] "the options available to judges are very limited" or some such phrase. Really ? We don't agree for one second that that is the case. It is reported that she lives in the West Country, and goes fox-hunting. Acknowledgement : image from The Daily Telegraph, 9 January 2001. |
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| The News of the World carried an article about
Butler-Sloss's husband. Under the front-page headlines "Cleveland Judge Sex Scandal" and "Dame's randy spouse frolics with vice girls" was an article reporting that he was a judge in Kenya and was 'associating' with prostitutes. We may well ask : Has her experience of this episode in her life 'coloured' her view of men and affected her judgements about family cases and men's rights ? If so, is she capable of being an 'impartial tribunal' in family cases as required by article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights ? (Butler-Sloss had acted in the Cleveland child abuse inquiry, hence the "Cleveland judge" reference.) Acknowledgement : Image of front page, News of the World, 17 July 1988.
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