Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Phillips, the former Lord Chief Justice, argued in 2008 that Shariacourts should be used to resolve disputes among Muslims.
Such drama is largely absent from Malaysia's shariacourts, which operate in parallel with civil ones and deal mostly with family law for the Muslim majority, annulling marriages and adjudicating custody disputes.
In an attempt to counter the proliferation of these courts, a Bill has been tabled in the House of Lords by Baroness Cox calling for Shariacourts to be outlawed where they conflict with the British legal system.