An Employment Tribunal Judge said ‘people should not express anything about their own beliefs without it first being raised as a question by someone else’, during a hearing on 30 March.
Judge Martin Kurrein made the comments during the hearing of Sarah Kuteh, a Christian nurse dismissed by the NHS after she spoke to patients about her faith, and occasionally offered prayer.
Inappropriate if uncomfortable
During a cross-examination of a witness, Christian Legal Centre representative Pavel Stroilov, who is representing Mrs Kuteh, asked: ‘Are you suggesting that in the context of Sarah’s duties, any expression of her own religious beliefs is inappropriate?’
