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The organisation is urging peers to support an amendment backed by Lady Scotland, Lady Butler-Sloss, the Lord Bishop of Leicester and Lord Blair that would set up a broader definition of domestic violence like that already used by the UK Border Agency to decide immigration applications.
Legal aid cuts will put domestic violence victims at risk, report warns 2012
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"There isn't the finance out there," said Butler-Sloss.
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But there was a risk that big organisations could stifle innovation, warned Sarah Butler-Sloss, chief executive officer CEO of sustainable energy charity Ashden.
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"I speak with some diffidence since I have really come to listen and learn," Baroness Butler-Sloss told peers the other day.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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His daughter, Sarah, is married to the son of Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, who is Nigel Havers 'auntie.
Great dynasties of the world: The Sainsburys Ian Sansom 2010
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Cross-bencher Lady Butler-Sloss, a former family barrister and judge, said there were fathers "who would simply not pay".
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This seems to English people about as odd as Americans must find the designation of the first female Law Lord British equivalent of Supreme Court Justice as ‘Lord Justice Elizabeth Butler-Sloss’.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Indeed, when Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss as she then was became the first female Court of Appeal judge, she was referred to as Lord Justice Butler-Sloss.
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However, the Lord Chief Justice decided that it was ridiculous that she was referred to as “My Lady, Lord Justice Butler-Sloss,” so he issued a Practice Direction telling counsel to refer to her as Lady Justice Butler-Sloss.
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This seems to English people about as odd as Americans must find the designation of the first female Law Lord British equivalent of Supreme Court Justice as ‘Lord Justice Elizabeth Butler-Sloss’.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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