The issue contested was that the respondent’s (muslim) exclusion from school, due to repeated violations of the uniform code, unjustifiably limited, inter alia, her right under Article 9 of the Convention to manifest her religion and beliefs.

The appellant practised scientology. She planned to get married in a Church of Scientology.

E complained that the exclusion of his son, M, from admission to the appellant school had been racially discriminatory.