Edition 4599: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Today's Highlighted Video Story: All Saints Spring Park Parochial Church Council v Church Commissioners - The issue is:
Whether, when deciding that a scheme for the dissolution and division of a parish in the Diocese of Southwark should proceed, the Church Commissioners wrongly:
(i) failed to consider whether the scheme gave rise to indirect discrimination, contrary to articles 8 and 9 of the Convention, read with article 14, insofar as the scheme would deprive a BAME-majority congregation of a BAME-led ministry;
(ii) failed to have due regard to the public sector equality duty under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010;
(iii) failed to consider the relevance of race inequality to the scheme's purpose, namely to make better provision for "the cure of souls"; and
(iv) wrongly used the scheme to penalise the incumbent reverend for perceived mismanagement.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council unanimously dismisses the PCC’s and the Reverend Yvonne Clarke’s appeal.
Whether, when deciding that a scheme for the dissolution and division of a parish in the Diocese of Southwark should proceed, the Church Commissioners wrongly:
(i) failed to consider whether the scheme gave rise to indirect discrimination, contrary to articles 8 and 9 of the Convention, read with article 14, insofar as the scheme would deprive a BAME-majority congregation of a BAME-led ministry;
(ii) failed to have due regard to the public sector equality duty under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010;
(iii) failed to consider the relevance of race inequality to the scheme's purpose, namely to make better provision for "the cure of souls"; and
(iv) wrongly used the scheme to penalise the incumbent reverend for perceived mismanagement.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council unanimously dismisses the PCC’s and the Reverend Yvonne Clarke’s appeal.
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