The WLR Daily case summaries
[2012] WLR (D) 121
JUDICIAL REVIEW— Licensing authority for exhumation— Disinterment— Remains of Polish Roman Catholic priest interred in grounds of institution formerly owned by Roman Catholic religious order— — Secretary of State as licensing authority accepting application for grant of licence to remove remains by religious order supported by heads of order in Poland and Rome— — Strong objection by distant relative and Polish community to removal for burial in nearby local cemetery— — Whether decision to grant licence reasonable— — Whether decision proportionate— — Burial Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict c 81), s 25