Has Mrs Blair been practising 'Cheria law'?

Last week we reported that Cherie Blair appeared to have applied a more favourable sentence in her court because a defendant, Shamso Miah, was religious.

The NSS has now made an official complaint about Mrs Blair’s potentially discriminatory decision to the body that oversees judicial behaviour, the Office for Judicial Complaints.

Terry Sanderson, President of the National Secular Society, said: “We are concerned that Mrs Blair’s remarks indicate that she might have applied a different sentence if the defendant had not been a religious person. We think it appropriate that the matter be looked into and, if necessary, guidance issued to judges to tell them that making sentencing decisions on the basis of a person’s piety or lack of it, is not acceptable.”