The Guardian has today picked up on that difficult point of whether / how it is possible, as a Judge, to hold personal religious beliefs and yet apply the secular law of England and Wales.  The article refers to the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship (http://www.lawcf.org) and Christian Concern (http://www.christianconcern.com).  Here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/d9dw3q5

The origin of the discussion is a sentence of eight years imprisonment imposed upon Sarah Catt by Mr Justice Jeremy Cooke for administering a poison with intent to cause a miscarriage.  In the judgment, the Guardian states that UK abortion policies were criticised. The issues are more fully aired in Elizabeth Prochaska's article in the Guardian yesterday (http://tinyurl.com/dyzshtr).


There are references to the Marriage Foundation, the Law Society, the National Secular Society too, with a quotation from Terry Sanderson of the latter.  There is also an unattributed quotation from the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship.

Interesting stuff.