ABSTRACT
The analysis of the intersection between law and religion was in the 1980s, and arguably still is, less developed in the United Kingdom than is the case in a number of other jurisdictions. The study of Law and Religion has always been a feature, although usually a minor feature, of academic legal studies in the United Kingdom. Consideration of issues relating to Law and Religion is no longer just spread through various sub-disciplines within legal studies; it becomes something that matters both in itself and for itself. Equity in general, and the Law of Charity in particular, had long been an area of mainstream academic interest. For Family Law Textbooks, religion was a very occasional matter for very limited reflection; for St John Robilliard, religion was the central matter for reflection and Family Law and religion are seen as being inextricably intertwined in Family Law.
