Law Society risks 'undermining' rule of law by promoting sharia, Chris Grayling warns

Currently, Sharia principles are not formally addressed by or included in Britain’s laws. However, a network of Sharia courts has grown up in Islamic communities to deal with disputes between Muslim families.

Next month, the Law Society is running a training course described as an “introduction to Islamic Sharia law for small firms”. The course offers training in Sharia law covering wills and inheritance, family and children and corporate and commercial law.
The event - which counts as part of a solicitor’s formal training - at the Law Society’s headquarters on Chancery Lane, central London on June 24 has already sold out.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10820783/Law-Society-risks-undermining-rule-of-law-by-promoting-sharia-Chris-Grayling-warns.html

Why run courses at the law society for solicitors if it not necessary in law ?

gerber wrote:Currently, Sharia principles are not formally addressed by or included in Britain’s laws. However, a network of Sharia courts has grown up in Islamic communities to deal with disputes between Muslim families.

Next month, the Law Society is running a training course described as an “introduction to Islamic Sharia law for small firms”. The course offers training in Sharia law covering wills and inheritance, family and children and corporate and commercial law.
The event - which counts as part of a solicitor’s formal training - at the Law Society’s headquarters on Chancery Lane, central London on June 24 has already sold out.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10820783/Law-Society-risks-undermining-rule-of-law-by-promoting-sharia-Chris-Grayling-warns.html

Why run courses at the law society for solicitors if it not necessary in law ?

To cash in on a market not yet exploited

I thought we had already done this Gerbs.

Do you have mediation?
sharia principals can be used in mediation, keeping in mind that mediation only occurs when both agree to the conditions. SO Sharia isn't relevant unless both parties think that it is and it will help them reach an amicable conclusion to their dispute.


Like Didge said REAL reason the law society is doing it is MONEY.