All this is is a set of guidance notes to make sure that the usual Islamic religious desires are incorporated into wills in a manner that is indeed consistent with English law.
It is not, at all, a change in that underlying law itself. It’s “if this is what you want to do then here’s how you go about doing that”.
Sure, we can all have lovely arguments about whether such a will is being misogynist and all the rest (but then so is primogeniture) but it’s sod all to do with bringing Sharia into English law.
[A COMMENT] This adds nothing new legally; you can leave your property to whoever you like, subject to a right for certain classes of people to bring a claim for reasonable provision.
The bigger issue, which indirectly promotes Sharia as more mainstream, is why the Law Society, out of all the things they could focus on, decide to come up with promoting some aspect of Sharia law. [Tim Worstall] Read more
