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...
14 Jan 2025
The ELS is pleased to advertise a lecture on the Arches Court, hosted by the Historical Societies of Inner Temple and Middle Temple. It takes place on 26 March 2026 at the Temple Church, London, at 6.45pm following Evensong at 6pm. More information, including booking...
08 Jan 2025
The Society was sad to receive news of the death on 5th January 2025 of Geoffrey Tattersall KC at the age of 77. Geoffrey was a distinguished Chancellor of Manchester, and Carlisle, and Vicar-General of Sodor and Man. He was a chair of clergy discipline tribunals and...
