The Law Reports (Family Division)
[2001] Fam 308
St Albans Consistory Court
In re
Crawley Green Road Cemetery, Luton
2000 Dec 2
Judge Bursell QC, Ch
Ecclesiastical law
— Faculty
— Municipal cemetery
— Disinterment
— Deceased and his widow having no Christian allegiance
— Burial after humanist funeral in consecrated part of municipal cemetery
— Widow unaware that ground consecrated
— Widow moving house
— Widow petitioning for faculty to move cremated remains to unconsecrated ground in cemetery local to her
— Whether medical reasons pertaining to petitioner established
— Whether refusal of faculty incompatible with petitioner's rights of freedom of thought, conscience and religion
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), s 6, Sch 1, Pt I, art 9
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