Covid, the courts and the Magna Carta

A few weeks ago, a group of 25 church leaders, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, filed a legal action challenging the government’s lockdown of churches as an unconstitutional invasion of church liberties.

Comment David Shepherd

In their pre-action letter, lawyers acting on behalf of the group cited Clause 1 of the Magna Carta as an unrevoked guarantee of religious freedom for the church: ‘that the Church of England shall be free and shall have all her whole Rights and Liberties inviolable.’