Here’s another good one from the learned Mufti. In answer to the question “what can the wife do if the husband refuses to divorce her?” he says:

The above verses are just some of the examples […]

As Lord Phillips helpfully pointed out in his lecture last night, in which he defended the Rowan Williams line, sharia is a set of principles ultimately based on the Koran. Good to know, eh?

But did you know that, […]

Here’s the full text of Lord Phillips’s lecture last night.

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 […]