Honorary Associate: Lord Taverne QC
Lord Dick Taverne
Dick Taverne became an MP in 1962 and later held ministerial positions. In 2002 he founded Sense About Science, a charity to promote the evidence-based approach to scientific issues. His book The March of Unreason – Science, Democracy and
the New Fundamentalism was published in 2005.
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Guardian, 21 August 2008
Yorkshire Post, 21 August 2008
Telegraph, 21 August 2008
The fact that this case was won while another case – that of 16- year old Lydia Playfoot and her claim in 2007 to want to wear a “chastity ring” in school – was thrown out of court seems in itself to be discriminatory.
Government transitional safeguards to protect the jobs and promotion prospects of head teachers and teachers already in post in Voluntary Controlled faith schools breach natural justice and are discriminatory, says the National Secular Society.