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- McFarlane v Relate Avon Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 880; [2010] IRLR 872; 29 BHRC 249 was an application in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales for permission to appeal against a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, that a relationship counsellor dismissed for refusing to counsel same sex couples on sexual matters because of his Christian beliefs did not suffer discrimination under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003. The application was heard by Lord Justice Laws, who issued his decision on 29 April 2010 refusing the application. The case attracted significant media attention due to the issues involved, particularly the balance of religious and LGBT rights, the intervention of former archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, Lord Carey of Clifton, who provided a witness statement in support of the application, and the judge's strongly worded rebuttal of the applicant's submissions. (en)
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- [2010] EWCA Civ 880; [2010] I.R.L.R. 872; 29 B.H.R.C. 249 (en)
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- A relationship counsellor dismissed for refusing to counsel same sex couples on sexual matters because of his Christian beliefs did not suffer discrimination under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003. Although the law protected a person's right to hold or express their religious beliefs, it did not protect the substance or content of those beliefs on the ground only that they were based on religious precepts.
McFarlane now employs disgraced Roddy Macdonald, former Christian counsellor of Destiny Church Edinburgh, who was sacked for sexually exploiting and abusing a young female client, herself a victim of childhood sexual abuse, in his role as Christian counsellor to the young woman. He counselled her while also working together in the church and he is known to have moved her into his marital home before his marriage ended. Macdonald is listed as a senior sex therapist in the Kairos Centre owned by McFarlane. A BACP hearing in 2015, which he did not attend, found Macdonald guilty of malpractice and incompetence. Macdonald lists himself as qualified to deliver 12 different therapy modalities, each of which take years to train in and master. https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/roddy-macdonald|
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- Ladele v Islington LBC [2009] ICR 387 (en)
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- McFarlane v Relate Avon Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 880; [2010] IRLR 872; 29 BHRC 249 was an application in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales for permission to appeal against a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, that a relationship counsellor dismissed for refusing to counsel same sex couples on sexual matters because of his Christian beliefs did not suffer discrimination under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003. The application was heard by Lord Justice Laws, who issued his decision on 29 April 2010 refusing the application. (en)
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