In re Christ Church, Alsager

Subject Matter

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

[1999] Fam 142; [1998] 3 WLR 1394; [1999] 1 All ER 117, Ch Ct

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Churchyard — Disinterment — Cremated remains 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

[1999] Fam 142; [1998] 3 WLR 1394; [1999] 1 All ER 117, Ch Ct