ENGLISH FAMILY LAW UP AGIANST RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES
                        Nobody wishes to live
in a state which, as time passes, becomes a jungle, where might becomes right
and the whims of the mighty become the law. Nobody wishes to live in a state
where states within the state are created and there is no secular body of law.
Nobody wishes that but safeguarding the rights of minorities and respecting
their ethical values is not only preservation of human rights but also brings
about harmony in the region.
                        Today, Britain has
become home to various religious and ethnic groups, so as to say, it has become
a metropolitan. Where there is so much diversity, the rights and customs of the
minorities and their cultural practices cannot be negated. The impact of
various high levels of social, religious and cultural radicals on the British
law has been heatedly debated over the years. The debated parts are the clashes
between religious values and the state law. The continuous use of the yardstick
for a reasonable man fails to commemorate the cultural and behavioral code of
litigants, and it affects the delivery of justice in English Law. Thus, the
English law, until recently, totally failed to understand the religious and
cultural values and failed to create an atmosphere deemed acceptable by all the
people of all ethnicities, from various walks of life. This is called legal
pluralism *.
