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BHA: Bentham lecture 2012: Perverting Trust

The Bentham Lecturer for 2012 is Baroness Onora O’Neill. She has held distinguished positions, having been Principal of Newnham College Cambridge, Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge and President of the British Academy. Baroness O’Neill chaired the Nuffield Foundation from 1998-2010 and has been a member of the House of Lords since 1999, as an independent, non-party peer. She has served on Select Committees on Stem Cell Research, BBC Charter Review, Genomic Medicine, Nanotechnology and Food and Behavioural Change.

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BHA: State funded ‘faith’ school judicial review dismissed

Plans for two new state-funded Catholic schools with discriminatory admissions policies have cleared a further hurdle today, after Mr Justice Sales in the High Court dismissed a judicial review of Richmond-upon-Thames council’s decision to approve them. The case had been brought jointly by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign (RISC) and the judgement will not be available for about two weeks.