{"id":82247,"date":"2022-03-03T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=82247"},"modified":"2022-03-03T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:10:12","slug":"frances-highest-court-upholds-ban-on-barristers-wearing-hijab-in-lille-law-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/82247-frances-highest-court-upholds-ban-on-barristers-wearing-hijab-in-lille-law-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s highest court upholds ban on barristers wearing hijab in Lille law courts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-53-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-53-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-53-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-53-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-53-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/03\/photo_2022-03-03_18-25-53.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>France\u2019s highest court on Wednesday upheld a ban on barristers wearing the hijab and other religious symbols in Lille law courts, a judgment which could set a precedent for the rest of the country.<br>The case was brought by Sarah Asmeta, a 30 year old hijab-wearing French-Syrian lawyer, who had challenged a rule set by the Bar Council of Lille, northern France, banning religious and political markers in courtrooms on the grounds that it was discriminatory.<br>\u201cBy requiring members to wear court robes without any distinctive sign, the Bar Council helps to ensure equality between lawyers and, through this, equality between litigants,\u201d the Court of Cassation\u2019s ruling said.<br>Banning the wearing of religious symbols \u201cdoes not constitute discrimination,\u201d it added.<br>The ruling is the first of its kind at this level in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s highest court on Wednesday upheld a ban on barristers wearing the hijab and other religious symbols in Lille law courts, a judgment which could set a precedent for the rest of the country.The case was brought by Sarah Asmeta, a 30 year old hijab-wearing French-Syrian lawyer, who had challenged a rule set by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":82258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,30],"tags":[108,252,2891],"class_list":["post-82247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-france","tag-hijab","tag-lille"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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