Hearings
Church of England
16 Apr 2002 [2002] Fam 299; [2002] 3 WLR 603; [2002] 4 All ER 482; Judgment PDF, Arches Ct
In re Blagdon Cemetery
Subject Matter
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 — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 8
[2002] Fam 299; [2002] 3 WLR 603; [2002] 4 All ER 482; Judgment PDF, Arches Ct
Commentary
Law & Religion UK
Defining “family graves” – Re Blagdon revisited (I)
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