Queen v. Headteacher and Governors of Denbigh High School, Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal [Civil Division], Lord Justice Brooke, March 2, 2005 [ruling that a British high school decision to exclude from school a student wearing a jilbab, a traditional Muslim gown, was unlawful because the school denied 16-year-old Shabina Begum the right to manifest her religion]. Excerpt:

All this is for the future, and this case has achieved the result of ensuring that schools will set about deciding issues of this kind in the manner now required of them by the Human Rights Act. It may be thought desirable for the DfES to give schools further guidance in the light of this judgment: one is bound to sympathise with the teachers and governors of this school when they have had to try and understand quite complex and novel considerations of human rights law in the absence of authoritative written guidance. For the present, however, I would allow this appeal and grant the claimant the three declarations she seeks.

Read the full text of the opinion here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.