In re St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Chingford

Subject Matter

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Telecommunications installation — Mobile telecommunications aerial on tower of listed church — Risk of adults and children downloading pornographic images from Internet — Whether appropriate use of church — Whether appropriate balancing exercise carried out — Whether steps taken to counter risks to children reasonable — Whether unbalanced to refuse faculty because adults might use network to access pornographic images — Whether faculty to be granted — Whether imposition of conditions to restrict access to Internet pornography engaging Convention right to freedom of expression — Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt I, art 10

[2007] Fam 67; [2007] 3 WLR 748