(CANADA) Nova Scotia's
highest court has upheld a decision to
allow future graduates of a conservative and controversial law school to
practise in the province.
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision
released Tuesday rules
in favour of the proposed law school at
Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C. The private,
Christian university had been
turned down by the
Nova Scotia Barristers' Society in
2014 because it
requires students and staff to abide by a community covenant. The covenant
says students must
abstain from sexual intimacy that
violates the "sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman." The barristers' society
said that covenant violates the
Charter of Rights with regards to
sexual orientation and so it refused accreditation to graduates. READ MORE