31 July 2008
In brief
A 14-year-old Sikh schoolgirl has won her High Court discrimination battle against a South Wales school, which excluded her for wearing a religious bangle. Mr Justice Silber ruled that Aberdare Girls’ School breached race relations and equality laws by excluding Sarika Singh since last November for wearing the kara-a plain single bangle widely accepted as a central tenet of the Sikh race and religion. Noting that the school has a role to play in developing principles of religious and racial tolerance in its pupils, Silber J said: “.Without those principles being adopted in a school, it is difficult to see how a cohesive and tolerant multi-cultural society can be built in this country.”
