Public interest and interesting the public: notable Supreme Court cases
From pre-nups to Star Wars helmets, Suzanna Ring and Alex Novarese look at some of the significant cases to have been settled at The Supreme Court
September 27, 2012 at 07:03 PM
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From pre-nups to Star Wars helmets, Suzanna Ring and Alex Novarese look at some of the significant cases to have been settled at The Supreme Court
December 2009 – R v The Governing Body of JFS
This concerned an alleged discrimination. A Jewish faith school had refused admittance to a boy because his mother's conversion to Judaism did not satisfy their criteria for him to be considered of matrilineal descent. The Court backed the appellant against the school in a five to four ruling.
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