R (E) (Respondent) v Governing Body of JFS and the Admissions Appeal Panel of JFS (Appellants) and others : R (E) (Respondent) v Governing Body of JFS and the Admissions Appeal Panel of JFS and others (United Synagogue) (Appellants) [2009] UKSC 15

The Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal, that the requirement to qualify for admission at a Jewish faith school that the Respondent’s mother had to be Jewish, by descent or by conversion, was a test of ethnicity which contravened section 1 of the Race Relations Act 1976.

A summary of the Judgment can be found here.

The full judgment can be found here.

Discrimination Law, Education Law

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