Before she was Lady Dawn Russell – technically, Lady James Russell after marrying her husband, Lord James Russell, in 2005 – American Dawn Russell had spent most of her time traveling the world with ...

Theresa May: "I think she would have done an excellent job" Retired judge Baroness Butler-Sloss has stepped down as head of a probe into child sex abuse saying she was "not the right person" for the ...

Lady Butler-Sloss has stepped down as chair of an inquiry into a child sex abuse ring after critics challenged her impartiality. Baroness Butler-Sloss informed the Home Office she was resigning this ...

Theresa May was accused of presiding over a ‘shambles’ as the head of the Government’s child abuse inquiry resigned six days after being appointed. Baroness Butler-Sloss, 80, had faced pressure from ...

Several high profile figures have expressed concern about her leading role in an expansive probe into whether abuse by politicians and other powerful figures in institutions during the 1970s, 1980s ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

One of the country’s most distinguished judges has warned of the peril of legalising assisted suicide. Allowing the terminally ill to be killed would cross ‘a line in the sand’ towards euthanasia, ...

Nigel Havers, Baroness Butler-Sloss's nephew: "She's completely independent of politics" The retired judge appointed to chair a child abuse review has insisted she will not quit - as the PM claimed ...

Baroness Butler-Sloss was president of the High Court Family Division for six years A former solicitor general has said Baroness Butler-Sloss should step aside as the head of an inquiry into ...

Spanish-born, New York-based designer Eli Caner is used to taking sartorial risks. But it was the fashion piece that exists at the other end of the spectrum—the service uniform—that gave her the idea ...

As the wife of RA ("Rab") Butler, she was convinced, as she said years later, that "history took a wrong turning and we missed a wonderful prime minister". After the accession of Lord Home to the ...