LEGAL MATTERS: Worship, tradition and the law: Part 1

I HAVE been dealing with an ecclesiastical dispute of late that got me thinking about how the law relates to matters involving churches and how they worship on one hand, and traditional leaders and how they are appointed on the other.

The common thread between the two is that the facts in such cases are always shrouded with spiritual and historical context and presenting such facts requires a legal practitioner to be sensitive to this context and articulate it well to a judge who may be a non-believer or a non-traditional