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Legal Systems: Islam

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 22 January 2025UIN 23994

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of Sharia Courts there are in the UK.

Answered by Sarah Sackman

I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on 18 December to Question 18879: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-12-10/18879.Sharia Councils are not part of the judicial system.

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