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On Meeting of Women’s Rights Campaigners with Law Society

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 15, 2015
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  • Law Society, sharia law
On Tuesday 13th January, women’s rights groups, including Southall Black Sisters, One Law for All, Nari Diganta and the Iranian & Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO), met with Mark Stobbs, the Law Society’s Director of Legal Policy at the SBS office. Our organisations welcomed the Law Society’s decision to withdraw its guidance on ‘Sharia’ compliant […]
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Latest Issue of Fitnah Unveiled on Sharia law and Law Society, Execution in Iran and more

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 15, 2015
  • 1 Comments
  • execution, Fitnah, Iran, Law Society, Secularism, sharia law, Unveiled, women
A Publication of Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation November/December 2014; Volume 2, Issues 8 and 9 Editor: Maryam Namazie; Design: Kiran Opal See PDF Version here. In this Issue: * Sharia law is incompatible with human rights, Interview with Chris Moos, Pragna Patel and Gita Sahgal on the victory against the Law Society * […]
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Press release – Women’s rights campaigners welcome withdrawal of the Law Society’s sharia wills practice note

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 24, 2014
  • 3 Comments
  • Law Society, Sharia
24 November 2014 One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, the Centre for Secular Space, Nari Diganta and the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation have welcomed the Law Society’s withdrawal of their sharia wills practice note. The practice note advised solicitors on how to draw up ‘Sharia-compliant’ wills, stating that “… illegitimate and adopted […]
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Law Society failure to withdraw Sharia-compliant Practice Note gross derogation of duty

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On September 17, 2014
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  • Law Society, Sharia wills
The below letter was sent to all Law Society Council Members stating that the Law Society’s continued failure to withdraw its Sharia-compliant Practice Note amounts to a gross derogation of duty on both legal and moral grounds.  A copy of our Legal Advice (Law Society Sharia Advice final August 2014) was included. We write this open letter […]
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We must break hold of pro-Islamist lobby on the Law Society

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 20, 2014
  • 2 Comments
  • Asma Jahangir, Law Society, UK
Please see an open letter to the leading Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir about her forthcoming talk at the Law Society, which has endorsed sharia-compliant wills. Dear Asma Jahangir, We are writing to you regarding your forthcoming conversation at the Law Society on Law, Gender and Religion on the 30th July. We are very pleased you […]
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The Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority withdraws its endorsement of the Law Society’s discriminatory practice note on Sharia wills

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 11, 2014
  • 8 Comments
  • Law Society, one law for all, Sharia, Southall Black Sisters, SRA
PRESS RELEASE 11 July 2014 Southall Black Sisters (SBS) and One Law for All welcomes the decision by the Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority (SRA), the regulatory body for solicitors, to remove the Law Society’s controversial practice note(1) on drafting ‘Sharia compliant’ wills (2) from its ethics guidance on wills. The decision clearly demonstrates that the SRA […]
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Law Society, Gender Segregation, Islamism in Schools, our opposition to Sharia Watch campaign, October 2014 conference and new office space

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On May 7, 2014
  • 2 Comments
  • gender segregation, Islamism in Schools, Law Society, Sharia Watch
Dear Friend I am writing to give you an update of our work. Law Society Protest One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, Centre for Secular Space and LSE SUASH organised a successful 28 April rally at the Law Society to oppose the Society’s legitimisation of discriminatory Sharia-compliant rules. The rally finished with protesters tearing […]
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Press Release: Wills without bigotry – protest against the Law Society

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On April 29, 2014
  • 1 Comments
  • Centre for Secular Space, Law Society, LSE SUASH, one law for all, Sharia, Southall Black Sisters, will
About 70 protesters rallied outside the office of the Law Society to condemn their endorsement of discriminatory sharia law on April 28 2014. The protest was organised by anti-racist, feminist and human rights groups, namely One Law for All, Southall Black Sisters, Centre for Secular Space, and London School of Economics SU Atheist, Secularist and […]
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Sharia law is madness

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On April 27, 2014
  • 8 Comments
  • Algeria, Fitnah, Iran, Law Society, sharia law
The below is Maryam Namazie’s editorial published in the April 2014 issue of Unveiled: A Publication of Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation. Sharia law is highly contested and vehemently opposed in many places across the globe. In Algeria, women’s rights activists singing for change label 20 years of Sharia in the family code as 20 years of […]
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Equality before the law is not just an empty phrase

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On April 27, 2014
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  • Law Society, Pragna Patel, Sharia
The below is an interview with Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters published in the April 2014 issue of Unveiled: A Publication of Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation: On the Law Society’s Discriminatory Guidance on Sharia-Compliant Inheritance and Wills Interview with Pragna Patel Maryam Namazie: British law already allows people to leave their estates to […]
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