15 Apr 2025
The ELS newsletter for April 2025 has been sent to members. A PDF version can be downloaded here.
11 Apr 2025
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....
11 Apr 2025
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...
17 Mar 2025
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...
20 Jan 2025
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...
14 Jan 2025
The Ecclesiastical Law Society is pleased to announce the publication of a response to the Law Commission’s October 2024 consultation on Burial and Cremation which has been submitted by a working party of the Ecclesiastical Law Society. I am most grateful to the...