Hearings
Church of England
24 Feb 2005 [2005] 1 WLR 2176; The Times, 20 April 2005, Const Ct (Charles George QC)
In re West Norwood Cemetery
Subject Matter
ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Municipal cemetery — Disinterment — Remains buried without consent of legal owner of exclusive burial rights — Whether exclusive burial rights “possessions” — Whether refusal of petition for exhumation interference with Convention rights — Whether giving rise to right to exhumation — Whether burial rights held on constructive trust for family — Whether legal owner estopped from withholding consent — Whether petition for exhumation to be granted — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt II, art 1