Britain's House of Lords has overturned a court ruling that a teenager's human rights were violated when she was banned from wearing full-length Islamic dress at school.
Shabina Begum took the headteacher and governors of her school in Luton to court for denying her the right to education and to manifest her religious beliefs under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights.
However, the Law Lords said the school had taken immense pains to devise a uniform policy which respected Muslim beliefs.
