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Category: Legal profession and judiciary
Janette Wilson
“You couldn’t look at European legislation and say that it’s all good or all bad. I think there’s a lot of work to be done in reforming the way in which the European institutions work. “
Chris Morris
“I think we are seeing law changing to reflect the increasingly secularisation of society. I think that your generation and my generation will be the last to remember a time when shops were shut on Sundays and Good Friday was observed by people as a Holy Day when nothing was open, even if they weren’t regular participants in acts of worship.”
Sir Mark Hedley DL
“One has to recognize that once we do with the basics, all the rest of it are matters that individual citizens have to work out in the lives they choose themselves. You can’t compel people to be good, you can restrain them from being bad. You can encourage goodness, but you can’t compel it.”
Gary McFarlane
“Maybe Christians are properly and appropriately represented in public authorities, but the system causes that many hide their faith. They may be there, they may have a faith, but it is not always safe to express it. That is the problem I think.”
Lady Brenda Hale
“Unless and until Parliament so says, it is an individual judgment, whether or not you feel morally obliged to vote. I myself think that one should feel morally obliged to vote. Part of it is that you can’t complain if you are not prepared to do the one thing you can do to try to influence matters.”
Joanna Griffiths
“If you have all children together in one place and you talk about all religions, that would enhance cohesion, understanding and a much better relationship amongst people of all faiths.”
Michael Kennedy QC
“Establishment has got so many consequences, for the monarchy, succession, everything you can think of. Disestablishment would only work if enough people understood what it involved and also saw the sense in getting rid of it or altering it all. “
Professor David Feldman
“I’ve never felt in any way disadvantaged on religious grounds by any institution I have dealt with. I’ve found that in the very best of them, they haven’t even been concerned about it, they haven’t even asked.”
Professor Grace Davie
“Democracy is not perfect, but it is better than any other form of government. That said, there are different types of democracy. A majoritarian democracy is hard on minorities. That is the case in France. In this country we are relatively fortunate. British democracy is ‘messy’, but it functions pretty well.”
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