1 Improvements to Financial Reporting Standards 2009, available at <http://www.frc.org.uk/images/uploaded/documents/FRS%20Web%20Optimized1.pdf> accessed 3 January 2009.

2 Available at <http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Library/tcc/pdfs/faithgov.pdf> accessed 3 January 2010.

3 Available at <http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Library/publicbenefit/pdfs/resmoral.pdf> accessed 3 January 2010.

4 Charity Commission website 10 October 2009.

5 Available at <http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/ccni-consultation_layout_1.pdf> accessed 12 September 2009.

6 Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008, s 1(1)(a).

7 Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, s 7.

8 (2010) 12 Ecc LJ 82.

9 RTÉ News: ‘Mass card law challenge lost’ 17 December 2009.

10 Available at <http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/bills/38-EndLifeAssist/b38s3-introd.pdf> accessed 21 January 2010.

11 (2010) 12 Ecc LJ 85–86.

12 COM(2008) 426 final 2008/0140 (CNS), available at <http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0426:FIN:EN:PDF> accessed 23 July 2009.

13 EU Council of Ministers Press Release – 16 November 2009.

14 Directive 2002/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 76/207/EEC on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women as regards access to employment, vocational training and promotion, and working conditions.

15 See the Commission's Press Release at <http://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/press/press_releases/2009/pr09146_en.htm> accessed 3 January 2010.

16 See (2010) 12 Ecc LJ 85.

17 Regulation 8(b) Sex Discrimination (Amendment of Legislation) Regulations 2008.

18 Aston Cantlow and Wilmcote with Billesley Parochial Church Council v Wallbank, [2003] UKHL 37 (26 June 2003): see, for example, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, at para 170: ‘when in the course of his pastoral duties the minister marries a couple in the parish church, he may be carrying out a governmental function in a broad sense and so may be regarded as a public authority for purposes of the 1998 Act’. See also Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead at 13 and 16 and Lord Hope of Craighead at 86.

19 HL Deb (2009–10) 19 January 2010 cc 907–913. The amendments inserted a new Part 5A into Schedule 3 to the Bill.

20 For the Amendments, see HL Deb (2009–10) 25 January 2010 cc 1211 ff.

21 ‘The amendment that we proposed in the House of Lords … sought to … make the distinction between religious and non-religious jobs clearer. The Lords did not regard our amendment as helpful. We will therefore leave the law as it is, and not bring the amendment back to this House.’: HC Deb (2009–10) 4 Feb 2010 c 468.

22 The rules are in the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988, ss 506 A–C and, correspondingly, in the Income Tax Act 2007 ss 549–557.

23 I am grateful to Helen Donoghue for her expert comments on this section of the Report.

24 Available at <http://blasphemy.ie/2010/01/01/atheist-ireland-publishes-25-blasphemous-quotes/> accessed 2 January 2010 – though it should be said that, to the casual reader, some do not look particularly blasphemous at all.