Garda ruling against wearing of turbans ‘should be speedily overturned’

A BRITISH parliamentary peer and world-renowned human rights lawyer has claimed the ruling by Garda authorities that Sikh recruits may not wear a turban is indefensible and will easily be overturned in a court of law.

Anthony Lester of Herne Hill, a senior British counsel who was one of the main architects of Britain’s Race Relations Act and is an independent adviser to the British government on constitutional reform.

He said the Garda ruling against the wearing of turbans could be challenged by anarmoury of “legal weapons” .