A relatively small number of consistory court judgments have been reported over the past couple of months; however, in early May we posted on a significant Court of Appeal judgment Sharpe v Bishop of Worcester [2015] EWCA Civ 399 in which the Court held unanimously that the Revd Mark Sharpe, formerly Rector of Teme Valley South, was not an “employee” of the Bishop of Worcester or a “worker” for the purposes of employment law.
Following the announcement by Cardiff University that its Law School had hosted a hearing of the Church of England’s Court of Faculties of the Archbishop of Canterbury, we ran a post on this little-known corner of the Archbishop’s jurisdiction. The Faculty Office has announced that two discipline cases of alleged notarial misconduct had been decided in the Court of Faculties in June, and the decisions in those two cases will be available at Recent decisions of the Court of Faculties.