Scientologists win the latest stage of ‘public worship’ legal fight
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Scientologists have won the latest stage of a legal fight centred on whether a Church of Scientology chapel is a place of “public religious worship”.
The Church of Scientology Religious Education College became involved in a dispute, at a specialist valuation tribunal, over whether parts of two buildings used by the Church of Scientology in London were “exempt from non-domestic rating” – one issue centred on a chapel.
Tribunal judges heard that the rating exemption covered “places of public religious worship”.
An HM Revenue & Customs valuation officer had concluded that the chapel, at the London Church of Scientology at 146 Queen Victoria Street, was not a place of public worship – and not exempt – and a valuation tribunal judge had agreed.
But lawyers representing the Church of Scientology Religious Education College have won an appeal fight.
Content retrieved from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/london-church-of-scientology-supreme-court-hm-revenue-b2259473.html.
