The point, as I understand it, is that this case is the first time a UK court has taken their decision into account. If that is the case, surely it is a major development?

Maybe the Shariah courts will end up getting primacy so when someone mugs a pensioner and beats them to within an inch of their lives and the do gooder liberal courts sentence them to a 3 month sentence in a room with an X box, and free college education to rehabilitate them, the Shariah court will be able to overrule and say no, stone the fecker to death.

All would not be lost.
We could sell tickets.

I like "Catch The Bomb" at half time, I haven't got the throwing arm for this.

The only matter of importance is that the court retains its primacy.

If you know anything about the modern courts system then you will know that in all cases and at all stages the parties are almost bounced into having to formally consider some form of alternative dispute resolution and indeed may be penalised for not doing so. Increasingly, going to court is seen by the courts as a last resort, and is back on the slippery slope of becoming solely the playground of the rich, which in many respects the courts of course already are.