<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>39848</id>
<session>2009-10</session>
<number>288</number>
<title>Sharia Councils And The Single Legal System</title>
<proposer id="11245">Bob Spink</proposer>
<date>2009-11-30</date>
<text>That this House notes the increasing use of Sharia councils in some circumstances in the UK; further notes that a single legal system operates in the UK under the authority of the Crown; recognises the importance of rigorously adhering to and maintaining a single legal system to ensure the equal treatment of all citizens; and calls on the Government to ensure there is no acceptance in any way of any alternative legal systems in the UK.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Administration of justice</topic>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11245">Bob Spink</mp>
		<date>2009-11-30</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Castle Point</constituency>
		<party>Independent</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11816">Philip Davies</mp>
		<date>2009-12-07</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Shipley</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11194">Iris Robinson</mp>
		<date>2009-12-08</date>
		<type>Withdrawn</type>
		<constituency>Strangford</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10679">William McCrea</mp>
		<date>2009-12-09</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>South Antrim</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10313">Brian Jenkins</mp>
		<date>2009-12-10</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Tamworth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11406">Graham Stuart</mp>
		<date>2010-01-11</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Beverley &amp; Holderness</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10582">Robert Syms</mp>
		<date>2010-01-12</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Poole</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10294">Kim Howells</mp>
		<date>2010-01-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Pontypridd</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11026">Greg Knight</mp>
		<date>2010-01-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Yorkshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10289">John Horam</mp>
		<date>2010-01-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orpington</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10506">Geoffrey Robinson</mp>
		<date>2010-02-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Coventry North West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11924">John Penrose</mp>
		<date>2010-02-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Weston-Super-Mare</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
