Courts back school ban on full-length jilbab

THE Law Lords in Britain yesterday backed a school which banned a Muslim girl from wearing full-length Islamic dress.

Teenager Shabina Begum had won a ruling at the Court of Appeal that her human rights had been violated when she was told by a teacher to go home and change into a uniform approved by the school.

But in a ruling which many teachers will see as reaffirming the authority of schools, the House of Lords allowed an appeal by Denbigh High School in Luton, Bedfordshire.