ELS Newsletter April 2025

The ELS newsletter for April 2025 has been sent to members. A PDF version can be downloaded here.

Ecclesiastical Moot 2025 at Nottingham Law School

Jack Stuart, Barrister at Ropewalk Chambers, writes: It is my great pleasure to report the success of this year’s annual Ecclesiastical Moot, taking place again at Nottingham Law School. The event was started in 2021 by myself, when I was working at the law school....

Peter Collier KC relaunches Northern Province lecture series

It was a great joy for the ELS to relaunch the Northern Province lecture series on 20 March 2025! The first lecturer was His Honour the Right Worshipful Canon Peter Collier KC, speaking on “Safeguarding and the law – a lecture in which their historic and current...

New MA Church Law degree approved at St Padarn’s

A new postgraduate canon law programme with an Anglican focus has been approved, and teaching will begin this September. St Padarn’s Institute in Cardiff will offer the MA Church Law, validated by Durham University. (This follows an initial transitional period this...

Nicaea Received – tickets for our 2025 Conference now on sale

Tickets for the 2025 ELS Conference “Nicaea Received: 1700 years of Canons, Councils and Ecumenism” are now on sale both to ELS members and to non-members here. The conference promises to be a landmark event in the history of the Society as we commemorate the 1700th...