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A Note on the Theology of Burial in Relation to some Contemporary Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
Affiliation:
Bishop of Stafford
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Requests for exhumation are increasing. Home Office licences appear to be more easily granted than heretofore. Consistory Court applications have multiplied, as witness the case notes in this Journal, and both the Chancery Court of York in Re Christ Church, Alsager and the Arches Court of Canterbury in Re Blagdon Cemetery have given judgments on appeal. Significant articles have appeared in this Journal from Rupert Bursell and Philip Petchey.

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Comment
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 35 , July 2004 , pp. 447 - 451
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2004

References

1 Re Christ Church, Alsager [1999] Fam 142, [1999] 1 All ER 117, [1998] 3 WLR 1394. 17 CCCC No 19, (1998) 5 Ecc LJ 214, Ch Ct of York.Google Scholar

2 Re Blagdon Cemetery [2002] Fam 299, [2002] 4 All ER 482, [2002] 3 WLR 603, 21 CCCC No 21, (2002) 6 Ecc LJ 420, Ct of Arches.Google Scholar

3 ‘Digging up Exhumation’ 5 Ecc LJ 18.Google Scholar

4 ‘Exhumation Reconsidered’ 6 Ecc LJ 122.Google Scholar

5 For details of the authorisation, see Common Worship: Pastoral Services, p 403.Google Scholar

6 As in Re Talbot [1901] p 1, London Cons Ct. noted by Bursell and Petchey in the articles referred to in notes 3 and 4 above.Google Scholar