Thank you for raising this. It does seem incredible that religious communities, who are known for the patriarchal way they curtail woman's freedoms and woman's legal rights in many parts of the world , are being supported to import their mysogynistic attitudes into a country which already has a sturdy legal system which offers support and legal redress to women who are being oppressed within their homes and following marriage breakups.
It’s a bit like saying, wow, in China they find that having the death penalty really helps to reduce murder rates, or in Afghanistan they don’t get nearly as many cases of adultery since they brought back public flogging, so let’s tweak our laws to deal with those specifics, because it won’t affect most people, only murderers and adulterers.
There is no reason why judges in the UK can’t be made aware of how “ cultural” sensitivities, however they are defined, could affect legal judgements in the UK. It would probably only involve a slight adjustment to initial training, because UK laws deal with the needs of human beings living and working in the UK, not the wishes of the self appointed guardians of deities and long dead prophets clinging on to their interpretation of outdated ideas.
Women in the UK of whatever background, cultural alliance or religious affiliation should be protected by UK law. Issues of domestic violence, marital or family breakdown, financial and emotional abuse should be seen as falling under the existing UK precepts, and if there are areas which for any reason are not covered by UK statute then it is up to the UK government to remedy this.
I have no beef with religions, but do not believe that any religion should have the rights to reach into a UK citizens secular life.