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General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

May 2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2016

Jason Lingiah
Jason Lingiah*
Affiliation:
Assistant Minister, Erskine United Free Church of Scotland, Burntisland
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The General Assembly met in Edinburgh from 21 to 27 May with the Rt Revd Dr G Russell Barr BA BD MTh DMin, Minister of Cramond in the Presbytery of Edinburgh, installed as Moderator. This year's Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly was again Lord Hope of Craighead KT PC. Lord Hope served as Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General and was subsequently Deputy President of the Supreme Court. The most significant piece of business relating to the interface between church and civil law again related to same-sex relationships, as outlined below.

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Synod Reports
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 70 - 73
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2016 

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1 It should be remembered that the Scottish Government has consulted on the future of civil partnerships and one issue on which views were sought was whether or not opposite-sex civil partnerships should be introduced. At the time of writing, no decision had been taken.

2 For English lawyers, real property.

3 Panel on Review and Reform, ‘Proposed deliverance and report’, May 2016, available at <http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/32823/Panel_on_Review_and_Reform.pdf>, accessed 1 October 2016.