Ex magistrate begins appeal

Christian Magistrate in Legal Appeal Today over Christian Conscience

ANDREW McClintock, a Sheffield-based Magistrate on the family panel, will be in Court today asking to be excused from presiding over cases where the outcome might be the placing of a child in a same-sex household.

Mr McClintock, a Christian, will be represented at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in London by Paul Diamond, Barrister, and the case is expected to last one day. He is appealing against the decision of the Sheffield Employment Tribunal.

On 6^th February 2006, Mr. McClintock was forced to resign from membership of the Family Panel as he felt unable to place children in a same sex household, and the court refused to allow him to be screened from those cases. Mr McClintock felt there was a conflict of law as he felt the welfare of the child was best served by placing him or her in a family with a mother and a father.

Please uphold today’s hearing in prayer, pray for justice to be done and for fair media coverage

A full report on this case and its implications will be emailed as soon as the Court has handed down its judgement.