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Religious practices and the law

Andrew Mitchell discusses recent cases on religious beliefs and the law, and the calls for reforming family law, with reference to the ‘law and morality’ and ‘balancing conflicting interests’ topics

This article links to ‘concepts of law’ topics in the AQA, OCR and WJEC A-level specifications.

In the conjoined twins case of In Re A (2001), in which the religious views of the parents conflicted with the position of the medical practitioners who were advocating the separation of twins, Lord Justice Ward’s introductory comments of the leading Court of Appeal judgement included the following:

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