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Ritual slaughter, religious male circumcision and public opinion: a YouGov poll
The Jewish Chronicle has recently published the findings of a survey that it commissioned from YouGov on attitudes to religious slaughter of animals (shechita) and religious circumcision (brit milah):...
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Religion and Law round up – 7th April
Another fairly quiet week… The European Union and the ECHR The European Union’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights is required under Article 6 of the Lisbon Treaty and foreseen by...
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Ritual slaughter and animal welfare
Chris Luff has helpfully drawn our attention to the fact that in May the Government published a Summary of Responses to last year’s consultation on the welfare of animals at slaughter. We have...
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Religion and Law round up – 9th June
A week dominated by the House of Lords vote on same-sex marriage Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill The House of Lords gave the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill a second reading without division on...
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Bats in churches – again
In the round-up for 30 June we made a fairly brief mention of the Westminster Hall debate on bats in churches which was initiated by the Second Church Estates Commissioner, Sir Tony Baldry. The debate...
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Religion and law round up – 21st July
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill received Royal Assent on 17 July. At the time of posting the Act copy had not yet been published on legislation.gov.uk And apart from that… Abortion law in Ireland...
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Religious slaughter and pre-stunning – again
On 7 July The Times (£) carried a story about religious slaughter and pre-stunning. It reports that Nizar Boga has “reignited the debate about ritual slaughter by urging the Government to ban halal...
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Halal and shechita in the news again
With apologies for being somewhat repetitious… The Times reports (£) that the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Beef and Lamb has called for experiments on stunning sheep and cattle in order to satisfy...
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Religion and law round-up – 9th November
An unexpectedly busy week: gender-selective abortion, a debate on ritual slaughter, the Lords on assisted dying, religion and property rights and more… Assisted dying On Friday Lord Falconer’s Assisted...
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Religion and Law round-up – 14th December
Advent 3, and only 11 shopping days until Christmas (and 47 working days until the Church Roof Fund deadline) The Law Society’s sharia practice note We have commented previously on the Law Society’s...
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PACE resolution on Freedom of religion and living together in a democratic...
On 30 September the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE] (not to be confused with the European Parliament) agreed a Resolution on freedom of religion: the report on which it was based...
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Fudge and poultry in the Lords
… not a reference by Lord Lawson of Blaby to his daughter’s culinary endeavours, but a motion to regret moved by moved by Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, [15 Dec 2015 Vol 767(85) Column 2054]: “That...
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Law and religion round-up – 18th September
And as a couple of OAPs continued to slug it out for the US Presidency, a very busy week in which another couple of OAPs carried on blogging… …and reporting on the week’s bumper crop of developments in...
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Un-stunned meat supply to schools?
Local initiative in the absence of national provisions Lancashire County Council is in the process of reviewing its current policy on the supply of halal meat to schools, and its on-line consultation...
View ArticleWestminster Hall debate on ritual slaughter
On Tuesday, the House of Commons held a short debate in Westminster Hall on the religious slaughter of farm animals. Opening the debate, George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth) (Con), suggested a number...
View ArticleVegetarianism as a protected characteristic: another view on Conisbee
In a guest post, Professor Peter Edge takes a critical look at Conisbee. In Conisbee v Crossley Farms Ltd & Ors [2019] ET 3335357/2018, Employment Judge Postle gave a reserved judgment in which he...
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