A significant volume of UK cases have been decided on whether or not individuals with conscientious beliefs (whether or not religious) should be accommodated in the face of legal requirements that contradict their beliefs. The most recent high profile case is the \;Ashers Baking Case \;(otherwise known as the Gay Cake case) where the NI Court of Appeal held that a Christian bakery was not entitled to refuse to bake a case embedded with a slogan saying &lsquo\;Support Gay Marriage&rsquo\;. This is only one of a series of high profile UK cases. \;
\nDespite this rich case law there is no single monograph \;in the UK dedicated to tackling the doctrinal and theoretical complexity of this case law. The conference aims to fill this scholarly absence by bringing together high calibre scholars to engage with this case law with the view of publishing the outputs as an edited collection.
\nThe Conscience Conference will have three consecutive sessions with the following \;schedule:
\nWelcome and coffee
\n10.30 - 11.00
\nSession 1 \;
\n11.00 &ndash\; 12.45
\nIs there a moral right to conscientious exemption?
\nSpeakers: Julian Rivers\, Peter Jones\, Cé\;cile Laborde
\nLunch \;
\n12.45 - 13.45
\nSession 2
\n13.45 &ndash\; 15.30
\nHow should courts deal with claims of conscience?
\nSpeakers: Yossi Nehushtan\, Robert Wintemute\, Ian Leigh
\nCoffee Break
\n15.30 - 16.00
\nSession 3
\n16.00 - 17.45
\nDoctrinal difficulties in the law of conscience
\nSpeakers: Frank Cranmer\, Lucy Vickers\, Maleiha Malik
\nClosing remarks and drinks
\n17.45 - 18.30
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