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Introduce a new non-religious oath for witnesses in court which will make clearer the consequences for those who commit perjury.

Submitted on Friday 5th August 2011

Published on Wednesday 10th August 2011

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 10th August 2012

Signatures: 27

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Introduce a new non-religious oath for witnesses in court which will make clearer the consequences for those who commit perjury.

Additional Information

We would like the government to introduce a new non-religious oath for witnesses in court. There are numerous benefits to this:

It would keep religion in the private realm and out of the public realm;

It would remove the notion that religion is associated with "truth" or "goodness" or "justice";

It would be a step in the direction of equality as all people would be saying the same oath;

Perjury laws and other sanctions already exist for anyone giving false evidence;

A religious oath might give religious jurors a false sense of confidence in a person's testimony;

In addition, a new oath should make clearer the consequences for those who commie perjury. For example it could include the phrase "and that to tell lies on oath is perjury – a serious criminal offence, the punishment for which is imprisonment upon conviction."

This way, people will clearly know the law, and will also not be subjected to a religion while testifying.


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