July 30, 2008

Girl overturns no jewellery rule

A fourteen-year-old girl, who was excluded from school for wearing a bracelet, has won her high court discrimination case against the school in Wales.

Sarika Singh from Cwmbach, South Wales found herself excluded from the Aberdare Girls School last year when you refused to remove her bangle for religious reasons.

However, with no hope of finding a solution to the problem she decided that her only course of action would be to take her school to High Court in London on the grounds of religious discrimination.

The judge in case has now ruled that the school was guilty of indirect discrimination under the race relations and equality laws.

The school have said that they would look at the verdict in some detail, although they have been refused permission to appeal.

In the meantime, Sarika is looking forward to returning to school when the year starts in September.

Source [BBC]