Boyd: the difference? well, participants in Judge Judy’s court can’t rely on the State to enforce her rulings. As a lawyer, I read statements that a religious court has been adopted as part of the country’s legal structure to mean just that: a sharia court’s ruling that a woman is legally divorced by virtue of her husband stating “I divorce you” three times controls over any other pronouncement of British law … and how many Muslim wives, looking death in the face, are going to hold out for a divorce in British law courts with the protections of alimony, child custody laws, and so on? Sharia courts now stand equal with British law courts and their judgments are enforceable by British courts, no matter their substance or nature.