Missing a slice of cake
This article is a concise and accurate report on the law surrounding the case known as the ‘Gay Cake’ case. It wasn’t prosecutorial zeal which led to the court case, it was a company which failed understand the basic tenets of law and in particular contract law.
The court case was not brought by Gareth Lee, all he wanted was a cake, the case was taken up by the Equality Commission as it believed that the baker had broken the law. Subsequently, this has been proved correct by the original judgement and the Appeal Court.
No one is above the law, if we are to be a fair and equitable society we must ‘ALL’ comply with and live by the law. If we don’t like a law, then we have legal remedies, and in the final resort, we can challenge the government.
Less prosecutorial zeal may be the easiest way to address such issuesSource: The great Belfast bake-off: Asher’s ‘gay cake’ decision
Court Case Settled. A lot has been written over the months regarding this court case, and indeed some of it was factually wrong. The facts were that an order was placed with no intention of setting up any individual, business or organisation up for in-adverse publicity. A contract was entered into, and money was exchange – a normal business transaction. Therefore the contract should have been honoured, possibly with a note to the person who placed the order that the business would not be able to fulfil any future orders of this nature.
