Church and State in the 21st Century

5-7 April 2019 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park: The Ecclesiastical Law Society is promoting a public discussion of the nature of establishment and the challenges it may face in the years ahead, both from a constitutional vantage point and in parochial ministry...

Peter Smith on Visitations

27 years ago, Peter Smith had contributed an authoritative analysis of Visitations in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal (Smith, P. (1991). ‘Points of Law and Practice Concerning Ecclesiastical Visitations’ Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 2(9), 189-212. In a well-attended...
New Trustees for 2018

New Trustees for 2018

At the ELS committee meeting on 5 June 2018, we welcomed four new trustees, recently elected or co-opted to the committee: Luke Tatam (standing back left in the photograph), Ben Harrison (back right), Ruth Arlow (front left), and Paul Benfield (front right). We...
Ecclesiastical Law Society Sponsors Inter-Inn Moot Competition

Ecclesiastical Law Society Sponsors Inter-Inn Moot Competition

For the fourth successive year, the Ecclesiastical Law Society sponsored the Inter-Inn Mooting competition which concluded with the final on 3 July 2018. Hosted by Lincoln’s Inn, with excellent organisation by Clare Shepherd and Charlie Taylor, the finalists were...