Alison Russell
| The Hon. Ms Justice Russell | |
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| High Court Judge | |
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Assumed office 2014 | |
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| 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 British High Court judge.[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]
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.
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