(CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE) Lillian Ladele, the Christian registrar whose court battle to protect freedom of conscience became the UK’s leading case on the issue, has died at home of natural causes aged 54.
Miss Ladele faced a long-running legal battle, supported by The Christian Institute’s Legal Defence Fund, which went all the way to the European Court of Human Rights.
In 2003 Lillian Ladele told her managers at Islington Council that, should civil partnerships ever become law, she would have a conflict of conscience based upon her Christian beliefs about marriage.