A Muslim student has lost a legal challenge against a school previously dubbed Britain's strictest over its ban on 'prayer rituals'. The pupil, who cannot be named for legal reasons, took the action against Michaela Community School in Brent, north London, claiming the policy 'uniquely' affects her faith, with prayer one of its five pillars.
The school has around 700 pupils and roughly half are Muslim. In a written judgement, Mr Justice Linden said: 'It seems to me that this is a case… where the claimant at the very least impliedly accepted, when she enrolled at the school, that she would be subject to restrictions on her ability to manifest her religion. 'She knew that the school is secular and her own evidence is that her mother wished her to go there because it was known to be strict.
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