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It started when Cherie Booth QC (also known as Cherie Blair) — acting in her role as judge — made her now-infamous remark in court to Shamso Miah that she would not be sending him to prison despite the fact that he attacked a man for no apparent reason and broke his jaw. Recorder Booth told Mr Miah that he was being given a suspended sentence because he was “a religious man” who knew what he did was wrong. Read more...

The United States Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider an appeal by the Vatican for immunity in a paedophilia case. The case, brought in 2002, can now go ahead and the ruling paves the way for Vatican officials and, technically, Pope Benedict himself, to be questioned under oath with regard to the alleged sexual abuse of minors by Roman Catholic priests in the United States. Read more...

A ‘parallel’ system of justice based on Islamic law should face a test case under the Human Rights Act, a group campaigning against religious laws said this week.

The One Law for All Campaign called for a case to be initiated to determine whether Muslim arbitration tribunals and sharia councils are public authorities under the 1998 act. If found to be so, they would be prohibited from acting in any manner contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights, according to the report Sharia Law in Britain. Read more...