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Judge faces pressure to quit inquiry over paedophile scandal cover-up
By Frances Gibb
Times
July 12, 2014
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/law/article4145669.ece
[with pdf]
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 periods of some of the present controversy over the failure to prosecute child abuse.
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