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Parliamentary Report

October 2007–January 2008

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2008

Frank Cranmer
Frank Cranmer
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University
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On 9 January 2008, Dr Evan Harris, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, brought forward the following new clause to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill: ‘The offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel are abolished’. His proposal had wide cross-party support and had also attracted backing from the House of Lords in the persons of the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton, and the former Bishop of Oxford, Lord Harris of Pentregarth.

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Parliamentary Reports
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , May 2008 , pp. 210 - 216
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2008

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References

1 See HC Deb (2007–08) 9 January cc 437–455.

2 Whitehouse v Lemon [1979] AC 617, [1979] 1 All ER 898, HL.

3 HC Deb (2007–08) 9 January c 454. At the time of writing, the amendment had not been tabled.

4 HL Deb (2007–08) 5 March 2008 cc 1117–1148.

5 The link is at <http://www.oscr.org.uk/NewsItem.aspx?ID=76b9ef38-a449-454b-adbc-f688c9f5572c>, accessed 14 January 2008.

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8 Charities Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007, SI 2007/3286.

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10 Charities and Public Benefit, p. 11.

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13 (2008) 10 Ecc LJ 101.

14 Available at <http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/1/E/giftaid_responses131207.pdf>. accessed 7 January 2008.

15 Home Office Press Release 6 December 2007.

16 [2007] UKVAT V20464. The principal issue was the extent to which various new constructions were annexes to the existing school and capable of functioning independently from the old building – in which case the annexes would qualify for zero-rating. The judgment is available in full at <http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKVAT/2007/V20464.html>, accessed 15 January 2007.

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