Lord Bradshaw – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Bradshaw on 2014-03-27.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many legal cases were decided under Sharia law in the United Kingdom in 2012 and 2013.

Lord Faulks

Sharia law has no jurisdiction here and legal cases are not decided under Sharia law in the United Kingdom’s courts and tribunals. The answer to the question is therefore ‘none’.

If people choose to use Sharia for the purposes of dispute resolution or to agree a contract, for example, the enforceability of such arrangements will be entirely dependent on the law of the relevant part of the United Kingdom.

Regardless of religious belief everyone in the United Kingdom is equal before the law of the land.