30 Apr 2020
The April edition of our newsletter is now available slightly updated here.
26 Apr 2020
John Rees writes… Frank Robson was a founding member of the Society and its distinguished Chairman for a number of years. Having qualified as a solicitor with a family firm in Northumberland in the early 1950s, he took a break from legal practice to read theology at...
21 Apr 2020
The Ecclesiastical Law Society was delighted to welcome the Rt Worshipful Charles George QC, Dean of the Arches and Auditor, to deliver the first of the 2020 London lectures entitled ‘Do we still need the Faculty System?’ on 19 February. Following a brief history and...
21 Apr 2020
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...
12 Apr 2020
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...
08 Apr 2020
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...
