Christian NHS Director and Judge Loses His Appeal Against Being Fired Over Expressing His Traditional View On Family

Case information
Incident date
Country
United Kingdom
Place
Kent
Categories
  • Government Restrictions
Attack Against
  • Faith
  • Morals
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Political
Societal Sphere
  • Governmental
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Defamation
  • Exclusion (of individuals or ideas)
  • Freedom of Conscience
  • Freedom of Expression
Place of Incident
  • Business
Bias Indicators
  • Racial/Ethnic/Gender/Cultural Differences
  • Victim/Witness Perception
Reported to Police
  • Unknown
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown
Image credit: Richard Page on Youtube

Richard Page, NHS director and judge, has lost his appeal after being dismissed and now wants to take his case to the Supreme Court. The Court of Appeal had ruled last Friday that his dismissals were lawful after Page said in a television interview in 2016 that children grow up best with a mother and a father. At the time, Page, who is now 74 and from Kent, was presiding over an adoption case and said he was discriminated against because of his Christian beliefs on parenthood. Since then, he has been fighting decisions to remove him from his positions and is supported by the Christian Legal Centre (CLC).

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