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“Fundamental rights and freedoms cannot be contracted away in the name and at the altar of education.”
This was the firm assertion of three Court of Appeal judges in a recent ruling on the matter of Muslim students wearing religious attire in Church-sponsored schools. In what is definitely a landmark ruling on personal freedoms verses institutional requirements, the judges averred that: “Schools cannot raise an estoppel against the Constitution. No one can.”
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