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UK: The Judiciary and Institutional Racism

09 May 2015

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In this article Nadine El-Enany examines the recent High Court judgment that found Lutfur Rahman, former mayor of London borough Tower Hamlets, guilty of multiple offences including electoral fraud and corruption. As El-Enany puts it: "That a judge can put forward the view that the ‘natural instinct’ of Muslims is to defer to their religious leaders and that Bangladeshis are a ‘less sophisticated’ and ‘less well educated’ people raises the question of whether the charge of institutional racism that Mawrey [the judge] is so quick to dismiss cannot also be laid at the door of the judiciary."

See the full article: The Judiciary and Institutional Racism (London Review of Books blog, link)

Also: Full-text of judgment (200 pages, pdf) and: Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman found guilty of election corruption and barred from office (The Independent, link)

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