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“Freedom of Religion is among the most basic of Human Rights and deserves fullest protection of the
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"Freedom of Religion is among the most basic of Human Rights and deserves fullest protection of the law." To what extent if any is the principle recognised in the law of England and Wales? Article 9 states that everyone has the right to the freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Recently the EU has taken steps to ensure that all member states have antidiscrimination laws in place to protect religious diversity that is apparent in society today. There are two stages in considering the above statement; to consider the law protects freedom of religion and assessing its effectiveness. Blasphemy is an indictable common law offence, which has a spectrum of arguments for and against the retention of the law. It is a draconian law consisting of blasphemous libel and blasphemy, that latter of which took over from heresy. Lord Scarman defined blasphemous libel in a case in 1979 of Whitehouse v...
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