Alison Russell
The Hon. Ms Justice Russell | |
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| High Court Judge | |
| Assumed office 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 June 1958 |
| Nationality | UK |
| Alma mater | Polytechnic of the South Bank |
| Occupation | Judge |
Dame Alison Hunter Russell (born 17 June 1958), styled The Hon. Ms Justice Russell, is a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.[1]
Russell was educated at Wellington School, Ayr and the Polytechnic of the South Bank.[2] She was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1983. She has been a judge of the High Court of Justice (Family Division) since 2014.
On 6 May 2015, Russell was criticised for banning a woman from speaking about a case in which custody of her child was granted to the child's father and his lover after a surrogacy agreement broke down.[3][4] On 23 October 2015, the decision was overturned. [5]
On 11 Dec 2015, the Court of Appeal decided that Russell's judgement was set aside on the basis of procedural irregularities and a retrial ordered. [6].[7]
References
- ^ "Senior judiciary". Courts and Tribunals Judiciary. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ ‘RUSSELL, Alison Hunter’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
- ^ "Gagging of mother forced to hand baby daughter to gay dad". Mail Online. 6 May 2015.
- ^ Becky Gardiner. "The kindness of strangers: should surrogates get paid?". the Guardian.
- ^ "Mother forced to hand baby to gay father wins right to tell her story". Mail Online. 24 October 2015.
- ^ http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2015/12/14/prospective-adopters-win-appeal-against-return-of-toddler/
- ^ http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2015/1284.html
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