Islamic law is to be effectively enshrined in the British
legal system for the first time under guidelines for
solicitors on drawing up “Sharia compliant” wills.
Under guidance produced by The Law Society, High
Street solicitors will be able to compose Islamic wills
that refuse women an equal share of inheritances and
discount non-believers entirely, the Sunday Telegraph
reported.
The recommendations can also prevent illegitimate
children, as well as those who have been adopted,
from being included in an inheritance.
Nicholas Fluck, president of The Law Society told the
newspaper that the document, which would be
recognised by Britain’s courts, would promote “good
practice” in applying Islamic principles in the British
legal system.
But some lawyers have described the recommendations
as “astonishing” and campaigners have warned that
the move marks a step towards a “parallel legal
system” for Britain’s Muslim communities.
Baroness Cox, a cross-bench peer leading a
Parliamentary campaign to protect women from
discrimination authorised on the basis of religion,
including from unofficial Sharia courts in Britain, told
the Sunday Telegraph it was a “deeply disturbing”
development.
And she pledged to raise the issue with ministers.
“This violates everything that we stand for,” she
said.
“It would make the Suffragettes turn in their
graves.”
The guidelines were quietly published this month and
distributed to lawyers in England and Wales to “assist
solicitors who have been instructed to prepare a valid
will, which follows Sharia succession rules” while
remaining valid under British law.
In one section it is stated: “The male heirs in most
cases receive double the amount inherited by a female
heir of the same class. Non-Muslims may not inherit
at all, and only Muslim marriages are recognised.
“Similarly, a divorced spouse is no longer a Sharia
heir, as the entitlement depends on a valid Muslim
marriage existing at the date of death.”
And in another section it suggests amending clauses
which define the terms “children” or “issue” to ensure
that illegitimate or adopted offspring are excluded
from the inheritance.
The guidelines also suggest that many Muslim clients
may wish to have a declaration of faith at the start
of their will, which can be worded appropriately with
help from the local mosque.
Currently, Sharia rules are not formally recognised
or included in British laws.
But a network of Sharia courts has emerged to deal
with disputes among Muslim families in Islamic
communities.
A few are officially recognised tribunals, operating
under the Arbitration Act, but many more unofficial
Sharia courts are in operation.
Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the
National Secular Society, told the Sunday Telegraph :
“This guidance marks a further stage in the British
legal establishment’s undermining of democratically
determined human rights-compliant law in favour of
religious law from another era and another culture.
"British equality law is more comprehensive in scope
and remedies than any elsewhere in the world. Instead
of protecting it, The Law Society seems determined to
sacrifice the progress made in the last 500 years.”
The new guidelines are one example of the practice
notes that the Law Society issues for the use and
benefit of its members.
These documents represent the Law Society's view of
good practice in a particular area. Lawyers are not
required to follow them, but doing so makes it easier
for them to account to oversight bodies for their
actions.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/islamic-law-to-be-enshrined-in-british-law-as-solicitors-get-guidelines-on-sharia-compliant-wills-9210682.html

For their pocket

Britain and their love for Islam. Reminds me of the question Nnamdi kanu asks- Have you ever seen British supporting any Christian countries?

They support the Muslims who steal resources from Nigeria, Saudi princes, qataris and Emiratis who stash their resources over there.

Their economy is solely dependent on these fund as they have no natural resources.

While Republican/GOP Americans and russians are putting the damned muslims where they belong, gluttonic british are sucking their uncircumsized balls.

Good for them

This is going too far. There's a limit to which you indulge a foreign culture.

Vixxie:
This is going too far. There's a limit to which you indulge a foreign culture.

go and die...christianity is also a foreign culture to Africa

kkkp:
go and die...christianity is also a foreign culture to Africa

And there is a limit to which you should indulge Christianity as well.

British are cawards!