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Re Hudson (deceased)

Carlisle Consistory Court: Tattersall Ch, February 2009 Exhumation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2009

Ruth Arlow
Affiliation:
Barrister, Deputy Chancellor of the Dioceses of Chichester and Norwich
Will Adam
Affiliation:
Rector of Girton, Ely Diocesan Ecumenical Officer
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Abstract

Type
Case Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2009

The petitioner, daughter of the deceased, sought a faculty to enable the exhumation of the remains of her father for re-interment in consecrated ground in a gravespace previously purchased by the deceased for the burial of his remains and those of his first wife, the petitioner's mother. The deceased's widow, his second wife (now remarried), opposed the petition stating that it had been the wish of the deceased not to be buried in the grave reserved for him and his former wife. The chancellor was not satisfied that the petitioner had rebutted the principle of the permanence of Christian burial and, as the power to grant a faculty in such a case is discretionary, the faculty was refused. [WA]