The Law Reports (Family Division)
[2002] Fam 299
Arches Court of Canterbury
In re
Blagdon Cemetery
2001 Oct 6;
2002 April 16
2002 April 16
Cameron QC, Dean of the Arches, Clark QC Ch and George QC Ch
Ecclesiastical law
— Faculty
— Churchyard
— Disinterment
— Burial following sudden and unexpected death
— Deceased's parents having no permanent home at time of burial
— Parents settling in retirement and purchasing family burial plot
— Whether exceptional circumstances established for granting faculty for exhumation and reburial in family grave
— Factors to be considered
— Whether refusal of faculty interference with petitioners' Convention rights
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 8