Kay, 34, realised her period was late a month into Britain’s lockdown. The coronavirus death count was spiralling across the country. Covid-19 was putting the NHS under unprecedented strain and Boris Johnson had given the British people what he described as “a very simple instruction” in an address to the nation from Downing Street: “You must stay at home.”
A worrying, unsettling time, and Kay, a mother of a six-year-old girl, needed to get hold of a pregnancy test kit. She went online and, two days later, took delivery of the test, learning of a positive result via two pink lines. It was the news she had dreaded.
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The
Color Purple actor fired for homophobia, is appealing a tribunal ruling that led to her being ordered to pay £300,000 in court costs.
Extending what has already been a lengthy legal battle, Omooba is contesting her loss in the religious discrimination case she raised following her dismissal from a production of
The Color Purple over a homophobic Facebook post.
The 26-year-old sued the theatre and her former agency for her full salary as well as vast sums in damages. She lost and now faces paying £313,195 in court fees.
But Christian Legal Centre, the legal group that represented Omooba, has confirmed that she will appeal against the ruling.
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Lessons from the Scottish church lockdown case
Lessons from the Scottish church lockdown case
1 Apr 2021
Last week, Scotland’s Court of Session ruled that the recent closure of churches there was unlawful. Lord Braid found that while the Scottish Government paid “lip service” to religious liberty, “there is no evidence that they have accorded it the importance which such a fundamental right deserves[1]”.
The Judicial Review was brought by a group of 27 evangelical church leaders with the assistance of the Christian Legal Centre. One of the church leaders who brought the successful case, Revd Dr William Philip of the Tron Church in Glasgow, said: