“The Arbitration Act should continue to allow disputes to be arbitrated using religious law,” Ms. Boyd recommends in her report to the Ontario government.
She was appointed to study the issue after the Islamic Institute for Civil Justice requested the right to offer religious-based arbitrations for family disputes based on sharia, the code of Islamic law.
The proposal ran into opposition from women's groups, legal organizations and the Muslim Canadian Congress, who all warned that the 1,400-year-old sharia does not view women as equal.
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