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Religion Law

2012

Selected Works

Neil J Foster

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Freedom Of Religion For Boarding House Owners Denied, Neil J. Foster Feb 2012

Freedom Of Religion For Boarding House Owners Denied, Neil J. Foster

Neil J Foster

Discusses the decision of the English Court of Appeal in Bull & Bull v Hall & Preddy [2012] EWCA Civ 83 (10 Feb 2012) that owners of a boarding house cannot refuse double bed accommodation to a same-sex couple, though they have refused such accommodation to heterosexual couples for many years.


New Workplace Safety Laws And Church Volunteers, Neil J. Foster Jan 2012

New Workplace Safety Laws And Church Volunteers, Neil J. Foster

Neil J Foster

Will church volunteers face jail under tough new OHS laws? Has this nefarious legislation stripped ordained ministers of their centuries-old status as “servants of God”? Yes to both, if you believe Imre Salusinszky’s article in The Australian (Jan 18, 2012). In fact neither proposition is true.


Can A Church Dismiss A Pastoral Worker Without Taking Into Account Discrimination Legislation?, Neil J. Foster Jan 2012

Can A Church Dismiss A Pastoral Worker Without Taking Into Account Discrimination Legislation?, Neil J. Foster

Neil J Foster

Discusses the decision of the US Supreme Court in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v EEOC (2012) that a church is not bound by discrimination law in its dealings with its own ministers.