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22 November 2007
Issue: 7298 / Categories: Legal News , Human rights
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BANGLE WRANGLE

In brief

A Sikh schoolgirl is suing her school for excluding her for wearing a small religious bangle—despite previous House of Lords’ rulings that Sikh children could wear items representing their faith, including a turban, to school. Human rights group Liberty is acting for 14-year-old Sarika Singh in her action which arose after she was forced to have isolated school lessons for nearly two months before being excluded from the school for wearing the Kara as a sign of her faith. Liberty will argue that the governing body of Aberdare School is breaching the Race Relations Act 1976, the Equality Act 2006 and the Human Rights Act 1998.

Issue: 7298 / Categories: Legal News , Human rights
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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