Ecclesiastical court judgments – December (I)

Review of the ecclesiastical court judgments during December 2019

This post reviews the first twelve of the twenty-three consistory court judgments that were circulated in December; these in this  Part I concern Reordering, extensions & other building works.

Part II will cover the remaining eleven judgments relating to ExhumationChurchyards and burials; and Bells. It will also include  links to other posts relating to ecclesiastical law, and information from the Oxford diocese which gives some background to the operation of its DAC. Other future posts will consider some of these cases in more detail: Re All Saints Preston and Re The Holy Saviour Bitterne and considerations on the introduction of “pod” facilities into Grade I and Grade II churches, respectively; and on the disregard of the faculty jurisdiction in Re St. Oswald Filey . Continue reading