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Jonathan McCambridge

Religious education in NI schools breaches human rights, Supreme Court rules

The landmark ruling was delivered at the Supreme Court on Wednesday (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

The provision of Christian religious education in Northern Ireland schools does not comply with human rights standards and is unlawful, the UK Supreme Court has ruled.

In a landmark judgment, the court upheld an appeal brought by a pupil at a Belfast school and her father and reinstated an earlier court ruling that the teaching of RE and collective worship breaches human rights as it does not approach the subject in an “objective, critical and pluralist manner”.

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