I’m pleased that Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are raising the question of the Pope’s potential legal liability for his apparent role in allowing the abuse of children by priests to continue by failing culpably to take action […]

On Wednesday I wrote about the Nadia Eweida case at Comment is Free.

My line’s a compromise one, I think: my starting point is a secularist one, but I’m not insisting on the workspace being absolutely non-religious. I doubt that’s […]

While the British government bans Islamist groups, it looks very much as though some kind of ban is going to be imposed in France on being completely veiled – wearing the niqab, chador and burka – in public. A

The Supreme Court has given judgment today in this case about the admissions policy of JFS school, a state secondary school that has been educating Jewish children in London since 1732. M’s father, E wanted M to go to the […]

I must record that Lillian Ladele has lost her appeal in the religious discrimination case she brought against her employer, Islington Council, some time ago. She’s the registrar who, having been designated a civil partnerships registrar, refused to carry […]

Having written about asylum detention yesterday, an interesting Employment Appeal Tribunal judgment caught my eye today. Father Seraphim Vänttinen-Newton, a Russian Orthodox priest, has won his appeal for unfair dismissal against GEO Group, the private firm that runs Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre (or "removal centre", as the UK Borders Agency website calls it).

Both the Telegraph and the Daily Mail reported earlier this week about an evangelical Christian who’s been taken off the fostering register by her local authority after a sixteen-year-old girl, brought up as a Muslim, converted to Christianity […]

This morning Charon QC spoke to me about Geert Wilders, and my view that his exclusion is unlawful – it was a good chance for me to put together all the strands of my analysis, as set out my […]

I’ve not heard any comment about this either from Liberty, or from David Davis. Why not? It’s a major free speech issue.

In my previous post on this I forgot another reason why the decision to exclude Geert Wilders from the UK breaches EU law. It’s arbitrary – in this sense of treating Wilders differently from UK nationals.

One of […]