“…bout the effect of article 9. For present purposes I need refer only to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Eweida v United Kingdom 48420/10, [2013] IRLR 231. At para. 80 of its judgment the Court points out that paragraph 1 provides for the protection of religious belief in two ways – that is, it protects not only …”
“… of disadvantage but covering any disadvantage flowing from an act that has a “sufficiently close and direct nexus” with the underlying belief (see Eweida v UK [2013] IRLR 231, ECtHR). Secondly, he relies on obligations contained in Articles 52 and 53 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU which apply where a Member State is …”