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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
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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 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 January 7, 2014
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Fitnah, gender segregation, LSE ASH, one law for all, Southall Black Sisters, UUK

Joint statement of Southall Black Sisters, One Law for All, Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation and LSE SU Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society We are pleased to learn of the legal note submitted to Universities UK (UUK) yesterday in the name of Radha Bhatt, a student of Cambridge University, against their Guidance condoning gender segregation. […]

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

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

Joint statement on legal note to Universities UK against their guidance condoning gender segregation