Hackney Empire Ltd v Aviva Insurance Ltd

Case No: A1/2011/2956Neutral Citation Number: [2012] EWCA Civ 1716IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE,QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION, TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURTMR.

R (on the application of Hodkin and another) v Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages

Religious worship — Premises – Registration — Registrar refusing to certify Scientology chapel as place of meeting for religious worship — Claimant applying for judicial review of decision – Whether Scientology constituting a “religion” for purposes section 2 of Places of Worship Registration Act 1855 — Application dismissed