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Frank Cranmer; Simon Stanley

doi:10.1017/S0956618X25100835

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2025

Frank Cranmer

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Simon Stanley

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Frank Cranmer*: Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad’s College, Durham, UK Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Simon Stanley: Affiliation:
Deputy Head of Parliamentary Affairs, Church of England, UK
*: Corresponding author: Frank Cranmer; Email: frank.cranmer@centrallobby.com

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Type: Parliamentary Report
Information: Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , September 2025 , pp. 398 - 402

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X25100835 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2025

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¹ Prime Minister’s Office, ‘Appointment of the Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: 10 December 2024’, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointment-of-the-lord-high-commissioner-of-the-general-assembly-of-the-church-of-scotland-10-december-2024.

² For the text, see https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/9/contents/enacted. For a fuller discussion of the background to the Bill and the debates, see F Cranmer, ‘Religious Discrimination and the Church of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) Act 2025’, Law & Justice (forthcoming).

³ HL Deb vol 844 c 1250.

⁴ HL Deb vol 844 c 1254.

⁵ HC Deb (2024-25) UIN 42043, https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-27/42043.

⁶ Home Office (2025), ‘Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025: Overarching Factsheet’, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-factsheets/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-overarching-factsheet.

⁷ HC Deb (2024-25) vol 763 cc 125–140.

⁸ Ibid, c 133.

⁹ Ibid, c 139.

¹⁰ https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/56858/documents/5337.

¹¹ HL Deb (2024-25) UIN HL6587, https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-04-03/HL6587.

¹² Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (2025), ‘Government launches working group on anti-Muslim hatred/Islamophobia definition’, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-working-group-on-anti-muslim-hatredislamophobia-definition.

¹³ Ibid.

¹⁴ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e12094d8e313b503358c7c/Anti-Muslim_Hatred_Islamophobia_Definition_Working_Group_Terms_of_Reference_March_2025.pdf.