Carl Gardner
April 30, 2014
The secretary of the Lawyers’ Secular Society, solicitor Charlie Klendjian, spelled out on Monday what the protest was about:
We know the Law Society practice notes don’t change the law. We know that sharia law hasn’t […]
Carl Gardner
April 29, 2014
Where did the practice note on sharia succession rules come from, Yasmin Rehman of the Centre for Secular Space (and a fellow of the Muslim Institute) asked protesters outside the Law […]
Carl Gardner
April 29, 2014
Diana Nammi, executive director of the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation, told yesterday’s protest in Chancery Lane that she lived in Iran when its revolution was “hijacked by fundamentalists”:
As a woman, my […]
Carl Gardner
April 29, 2014
Abhishek Phadnis of LSE students’ Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society gave the funniest speech at yesterday’s “One Law for All” protest outside the Law Society.
What’s the world coming to, if a man has […]
Carl Gardner
April 29, 2014
The human rights and equality campaigner Peter Tatchell told yesterday’s protest at the Law Society that the demonstration was “just the start”. It would be better, he said, for the Law Society to concede now, […]
Carl Gardner
April 29, 2014
At yesterday’s protest at the Law Society, Maryam Namazie of One Law for All told her audience that Algerian feminists have called that country’s use of sharia family law “twenty years of madness”, […]
Carl Gardner
April 29, 2014
Following the Law Society’s publication in March of a “Practice note on sharia succession rules”, a protest was held in Chancery Lane yesterday evening, organised by One Law for All,
Carl Gardner
April 17, 2014
Carl Gardner
April 16, 2014