R (on the application of E) v Governing Body of the Jews Free School and others (The United Synagogue intervening); R (on the application of E) v Office of The Schools Adjudicator and others (British Humanist Association intervening) [2009] UKSC 15; [2009] All ER (D) 163 (Dec)
Supreme Court, Lord Phillips P, Lord Hope, Lord Rodger, Lord Walker, Lady Hale, Lord Brown, Lord Mance, Lord Kerr and Lord Clarke SCJJ, 16 December 2009
A requirement for a pupil to qualify for admission at a Jewish faith school that his mother has to be Jewish, whether by descent or by conversion, constitutes a test of ethnicity in breach of s 1 of the Race Relations Act 1976 (RRA 1976).
Dinah Rose QC and Helen Mountfield (instructed by Bindmans LLP) for the father. Lord Pannick QC, Peter Oldham and Christopher McCrudden (instructed by Stone King Sewell LLP) for the school. Ben Jaffey (instructed by Farrer & Co) for the United Synagogue. David Wolfson QC, Sam Grodzinski and Aileen McColgan (instructed by Teacher Stern Selby) for the Board
