Reading group – Canons of the Church of England

The reading group is now full, and cannot at present take any more participants. Watch this space for future plans. The Ecclesiastical Law Society is convening an online reading group studying the Canons of the Church of England. This will take place fortnightly on...

ELS Working Party on the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003

ELS Working Party on the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 Peter Collier QC writes: Arising from my lecture to the Society – Safeguarding in Church and State over the last 50 Years – I have been asked to chair a working group of the Society to take forward some of the...

Mark Hill QC on the Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2019

Mark Hill’s London Lecture, on the subject of Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2019, was due to take place today. Because of the present pandemic the lecture had to be cancelled, but in its place Mark has kindly made available a paper summarising the...

Sir John Laws (1945-2020)

Members of the Society will be saddened to learn of the death of Sir John Laws on Palm Sunday. After a prolonged period of ill-health, he was admitted to hospital and subsequently tested positive for coronavirus. John was a long-serving member of the Editorial Board...