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The application of the Arbitration Act 1996 in relation to Sharia councils and religious arbitration.
The core legal principle is clear from UK reporting: religious arbitration, including fora calling themselves “Sharia councils” or Muslim Arbitration Tribunals (MATs), can operate only within the fram...
English courts have not given independent legal authority, but they have, on specific occasions, enforced the outcomes of religious or Sharia-based arbitration where the parties voluntarily submitted ...
No part of is governed by as state law: Sharia is not part of the law of England and and courts and statutes remain supreme, but a patchwork of community bodies—commonly called or tribunals—offer reli...
The documents available discuss how religious dispute resolution in the UK has interacted with the Arbitration Act framework, but they overwhelmingly reference the Arbitration Act 1996 (England & Wale...