Does the campaign also ask for the entire Cleveland enquiry to be redone?
I find it shocking, for I remember that well, and remember praise, not condemnation, for her role and attitude.
AuntieStella, in short no.
I'm not aware Butler-Sloss had any personally conflicting interests in the Cleveland Inquiry, such as a close family member in a most powerful position at the time the investigation related to.
It's worth emphasizing, as has already been done on several threads, that for victims who have been abused by the State, if this inquiry is to mean anything, it must be absolutely transparent, independent and seamless.
There is not enough reassurance coming from either Butler-Sloss or the government to alleviate people's concerns around this.
The Guardian has also run this piece: www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/09/butler-sloss-inquiry-role-asked-to-step-down; and I agree with Alison Millar:
Alison Millar, a lawyer with Leigh Day, who is representing some of the victims of child abuse, likened the appointment of Butler-Sloss to asking a relative of the head of South Yorkshire police to chair the Hillsborough enquiry. Millar told The World at One on BBC Radio 4: "Baroness Butler-Sloss is an extremely eminent legal figure with a very distinguished career. However, it has become apparent that she has very close connections to the very establishment this inquiry will be investigating – namely her brother.
"To give an analogy, it would be rather like appointing someone who was a close relative of the head of South Yorkshire police, however eminent a judge, to chair the Hillsborough inquiry. [The inquiry] will lose credibility.
"Picking someone who will be seen at the start potentially by survivors as someone who is very much of the establishment, linked to the establishment at the time, is not going to give people any confidence to come forward and be frank and fearless in front of this inquiry."<
I have probably spent far too much time trying to support people (and sometimes failing) who can see no option other than to take their own lives to end their pain, due to being abused and rinsed out by failures in the system, who take with them through life such immense trust issues, the shadows of which cast shadows blacker than any you can imagine.
Even if Butler-Sloss does the best job possible to the satisfaction of MPs etc, but which fails to find anything significant, her familial links will always leave a question mark for the survivors to how much this influenced the outcome. Any chink of light in victims’ darkness will be effectively extinguished.