Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance he has issued to stipendiary magistrates, non-stipendiary magistrates and district judges regarding membership of (a) sharia courts, (b) a beth din and (c) other religious courts or tribunals.
No such guidance has been issued. Such a matter would, in any case, rest with the Lord Chief Justice and the senior judiciary, if they were minded to issue guidance on this topic to magistrates and district judges, or, indeed, to any other judicial office holders.