In re Durrington Cemetery

Subject Matter

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Municipal cemetery — Disinterment — Deceased of Jewish faith — Burial in 1981 in municipal cemetery to enable wife to visit grave — Wife moving to Australia — Deceased's relatives wishing to reinter body in Jewish cemetery — Whether freedom of religious practice relevant consideration — Whether faculty for exhumation to be granted — Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1953), art 9

[2001] Fam 33; [2000] 3 WLR 1322, Const Ct

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