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Apportioning Blame-Anglican Church v BBC in relation to sexual abuse and vicarious liability
The veteran MP and “Bolsover Beast” Dennis Skinner dubbed the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s recent criticisms of the BBC’s handling of sexual abuse an instance of the pot calling the kettle black.
Cake cases: gay marriage, freedom of expression in Northern Ireland and the USA
The US Supreme court will soon delivered its verdict on a case involving a Christian baker with objections to same sex marriage. Followers of the Lee v Ashers Baking Co litigation may experience a sensation of déjà vu, but only up to a certain point. Although the...
Fostering-Religion does matter (just not in the way some tabloids suggest)
The facts behind what has become known as the Tower Hamlets case remain unclear. Press reports stated that a five year old girl of Christian heritage had been placed with an extremely conservative Muslim family, encouraged to learn Arabic, made to take off her cross...
Turkish schools to drop Darwin, but some UK schools are still teaching Creationism
The announcement that Turkey is to remove teaching about human evolution from secondary education has reignited debate about the relationship between Science and Religion in the twenty-first century.
Book release date – August 2017
The book for "Religion, law and the constitution" is set to be released on 31st August 2017.