{"id":859,"date":"2006-11-28T18:20:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T17:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/11\/28\/religious_arbitration_in_the_uk"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:07:31","slug":"religious_arbitration_in_the_uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/11\/28\/religious_arbitration_in_the_uk","title":{"rendered":"Religious arbitration in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC &#39;Magazine&#39; feature: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/6190080.stm\">An end to one law for all?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very interesting (and, I&#39;m sure, controversial) feature on the largely little-known system of arbitration in the UK.  The best-known example is the Jewish <em>Beth Din<\/em>, but similar systems exist among Somalis and other Muslims.  The decisions, once both sides agree to its judgements, are binding in English law unless the judgements are &quot;unreasonable&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC &#39;Magazine&#39; feature: An end to one law for all? A very interesting (and, I&#39;m sure, controversial) feature on the largely little-known system of arbitration in the UK. The best-known example is the Jewish&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-dR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42205,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/42205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}