In re Crawley Green Road Cemetery, Luton

Subject Matter

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 — Human Rights Act 1998, s 6, Sch 1, Pt I, art 9

[2001] Fam 308; [2001] 2 WLR 1175, Const Ct