Let Muslim women wear a full-face veil in court ......

[HoHoHo]

Lord Neuberger said:

Let Muslim women wear a full-face veil in court, says head of Supreme Court as he warns over bias against poor and foreign defendants

Lord Neuberger said....

Oh, it's that old show respect lark.

What about watching and looking at the person giving evidence which often helps determine if they may or may not be telling the truth?

What about bikers who are forced to take off their helmets when buying fuel - can they now wear theirs?

Another example of kneeling at the feet and licking the shoes of the religion of peace.

One rule for one

[HoHoHo]

Chimune said:

HoHoHo said:

Another example of kneeling at the feet and licking the shoes of the religion of peace.

One rule for one

yawn.

defendant wears veil: only possible damage is to their own case. Their problem.
witness wears veil: their evidence is weighted slightly less than others. Who cares ?

All in all: don't see how this will ever effect 99.5% of the uk population.

Grist to the mill for Islamophobes though !

Sorry - I believe you are wrong for the following reasons:

The face should be clearly seen in a court of law so the laywers/jurors and other pertinant member of said court can see exactly how the person is reacting to questions. I don't stand alone with my thoughts here by a long way.

I don't care if it only effects 0.5% of the population. You live in Great Britain, you live by our rules. As far as I can see there is no reason whatsoever to keep a face covered in that situation.

It's not about Islamaphobes, for the record I have lived in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Jordan and on a personaly level have many friends who are Muslim. Not only am I told to respect their laws, I do so without question, and do you know what...........those I know are normal hard working family and friend orientated normal members of society....shock fecking horror.

Perhaps even though we are trying to integrate all cultures into our society and obviously work together for the good of all common sense should prevail and in this instance it isn't being applied.

It's a rule being changed for the wrong reasons.

Edited by HoHoHo on Friday 17th April 20:14