The Law Reports (Family Division)
[1999] Fam 142
[CHANCERY COURT OF YORK]
In re
CHRIST CHURCH, ALSAGER
1998 July 10
Sir John Owen, Auditor Judge Coningsby Q.C., Ch. and Judge Bursell Q.C., Ch.
Ecclesiastical Law
— Consistory court
— Appeal from
— Petitioner requesting hearing on written representations
— No parties opponent or other interested parties
— Whether power to direct hearing on written representations
Ecclesiastical Law
— Faculty
— Churchyard
— Disinterment
— Cremated re- mains of petitioner's father buried in garden of remembrance within churchyard
— Petitioner's mother's remains buried elsewhere in churchyard 17 years later
— Petitioner's wish for both parents to be buried in same grave
— Whether faculty for exhumation and reburial of father's cremated remains to be granted