Get in touch
020 7489 2165
info@employmentlawadvocates.com
Employment Law Advocates
Hamilton House
1 Temple Avenue
London
EC4Y 0HA
Blog
The Court of Appeal has refused permission to appeal in McFarlane v Relate Avon. The reasons¬†were straightforward, as the case cannot be distinguished from Ladele, which was decided a few months ago. However, the judgment is noteworthy for a bizarre intervention by Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, which led Lord Justice Laws to make some general comments about the relationship between religion and the law. His remarks are strongly worded¬†and it is worth quoting a substantial passage: “The promulgation of law for the protection of a position held purely on religious grounds cannot therefore be justified. It is irrational, as preferring the subjective over the objective. But it is also divisive, capricious and arbitrary. We do not live in a society where all the people share uniform religious beliefs. The precepts of any one religion ‚Äì any belief system ‚Äì cannot, by force of their religious origins, sound any louder in the general law than the precepts of any other. If they did, those out in the cold would be less than citizens; and our constitution would be on the way to a theocracy, which is of necessity autocratic.”
Recent News Articles
-
Christmas and New Year Office Closure
Our office will be closing for the holiday period at 12.00pm on Friday 23rd December 2011 and will reopen again until 10.00am on Tuesday 3rd January 2012. Advocates will ...
-
Employment Law Advocates is on Twitter
Follow us on Twitter @employmentlawad
-
Right to legal representation
An important decision was handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday when it overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal in R (on the application of G) v The Governors ...
