As has been widely reported, the Home Office has decided to exclude the controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders from the UK; here’s the letter it sent him notifying the decision. Many people will be troubled by this: there […]

Like many people my instinctive reaction is to be dismayed at the news that the head teacher of a primary school in Sheffield has resigned after her proposal to end separate Muslim assemblies brought accusations of racism. The […]

Something I’ve not yet commented on since my part facultative-festive and part enforced-technological break is the welcome restoration of sense and good legal analysis to the field of religious discrimination by the Employment Appeal Tribunal, which has reversed

This is another of the judgments the Lords gave on super-Wednesday at the end of July, and is worth a look because of the way their Lordships deal with the question of religious discrimination. It’s another stark contrast […]

Sarika Watkins-Singh has today won her race and religious discrimination case against her school for refusing to allow her to wear the kara, a Sikh bracelet, and for excluding her for breaching the school’s no-jewellery uniform policy.

The other court case that has attracted massive interest this week has of course been that of Lillian Ladele, who, an Employment Tribunal has found, was both directly and indirectly discriminated against on grounds of her religion, and was […]

Munby J gave judgment last Thursday in the Administrative Court in a fascinating case about whether the admissions policy of the Jewish Free School is lawful – the complaint coming from the parents of a boy who was refused […]

There’s an eccentric side to Lord Phillips: I remember his speech to new bar students in 1992 in which he advocated our criminal justice system should adopt aspects of the French “investigative” approach to finding truth. Then there was his […]

Two stories from France today: first, that of Brigitte Bardot and her conviction by the Paris Tribunal Correctionnel for incitement of hatred towards Muslims. It wasn’t her first conviction, either. This time (the offence goes back to […]

The Tory MP for Shrewsbury, Daniel Kawczynski, has tabled an interesting amendment which would require the government to renegotiate the Lisbon treaty to insert a declaration that the EU is based on its Christian faith, heritage, culture and […]