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...
05 Apr 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...
25 Mar 2020
The March edition of our newsletter is now available, here.
17 Mar 2020
Dear Member, Following Friday’s notice of cancellation of the Day Conference and AGM, I promised a fuller explanatory note of how the ELS is responding to current public health concerns and the spread of Covid-19. And here it is. But first I should like to thank the...
13 Mar 2020
We regret to announce that, in response to the current Covid 19 pandemic, it has been decided that the ELS Day Conference and AGM scheduled for Saturday 28 March should be cancelled. Today, 13 March, the Chairman has e-mailed all members of the Society as follows:...
