... High School in Luton, Shabina Begum, was sent home to change by the school after arriving wearing a strict form of Islamic dress called the jilbab. This is an ankle length gown, which covers the whole body revealing only the face and hands. Before this Shabina had worn the approved school uniform, a compromise between secular and religious dress, since the age of twelve. She accused the school of denying her the "right to education and to manifest her religious beliefs." (1) A series of court cases began, and Mr. Justice Bennet sitting in the High Court ruled in favour of the school. In his summing up he said, " It seems unrealistic and artificial to say that the claimants right to education has been denied." (2) He also dismissed Shabina's application for Judicial review. Shabina then asked the Court of Appeal to hear the case on the basis ...

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