Law Society | Maryam Namazie

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 […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On November 24, 2014
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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 […]

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 […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On July 20, 2014
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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 […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On July 11, 2014
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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 […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 7, 2014
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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 […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On April 29, 2014
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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 […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On April 27, 2014
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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 […]

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 […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On March 27, 2014
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Law Society, Sharia

We, the undersigned, are appalled to learn that the Law Society, the representative body for solicitors in England and Wales, has issued Sharia-related guidance on wills, succession and inheritance. The guidance says: “Certain principles of Sharia are different to English succession laws. For example, it is not possible to inherit under Sharia rules via a […]

On Meeting of Women’s Rights Campaigners with Law Society

Press release – Women’s rights campaigners welcome withdrawal of the Law Society’s sharia wills practice note

Law Society failure to withdraw Sharia-compliant Practice Note gross derogation of duty

We must break hold of pro-Islamist lobby on the Law Society

The Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority withdraws its endorsement of the Law Society’s discriminatory practice note on Sharia wills

Law Society, Gender Segregation, Islamism in Schools, our opposition to Sharia Watch campaign, October 2014 conference and new office space

Press Release: Wills without bigotry – protest against the Law Society

Sharia law is madness

Equality before the law is not just an empty phrase

The Law Society must withdraw its guidance on Sharia-succession rules