NLJ this week: A clash of rights & protected characteristics

Writing in this week’s NLJ, Nicholas Dobson considers one such case, that of an independent evangelical Christian fostering and adoption agency which required its carers to abstain from ‘homosexual behaviour’, which it deemed a ‘sexual sin’.

Dobson looks at the details of the case and accompanying relevant case law. Competing civil and human rights is an evergreen issue. In this case, however, the story is not over―an application to appeal has been made to the Supreme Court, so the issue may go to the highest court in the land.