UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
Frances Gibb Legal Editor
July 12 2014
Baroness Butler-Sloss was facing the toughest battle of her long career last night after it emerged that she withheld allegations against an Anglican bishop from a report she wrote into paedophile priests in 2011.
The decision this week to appoint the former president of the Family Division of the High Court, 80, to head a new overarching inquiry into child sex abuse has been criticised because her brother was the late Lord Havers, attorney general from 1979 to 1987, the period of some of the present controversy over the failure to prosecute child abuse.
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