09 Sep 2017
Prominent ELS member Professor Norman Doe is to deliver The Bekynton Lecture in Law and Religion at Wells Cathedral, 4.15 pm Sunday 1 October 2017 (The Education Room). This lecture is a collaboration between Wells Cathedral, Harris and Harris, and the Centre for Law...
04 Sep 2017
The Charity Commission has published updated guidance for independent examiners of charity accounts: it includes three new Directions that must be followed by examiners. The revised Directions aim to strike a fair balance between extending the role of the examiner...
03 Sep 2017
The Charity Commission has announced a consultation on the content of the Annual Return for 2018. The consultation is the second part of a two-year project reviewing the information that the Commission collects from registered charities and displays on the Register of...
02 Sep 2017
Historic England (HE) has published advice on what it needs to know in order to assess a proposal to install telecommunications equipment in a listed place of worship. HE is the statutory adviser to local authorities and the five listed denominations in accordance...
24 Jul 2017
For the third successive year, the Ecclesiastical Law Society has sponsored the Inter-Inn Mooting. This year’s final, hosted by Inner Temple who won the competition last year, took place on Thursday 6 July 2017. The finalists were Gray’s Inn (Ben Norton and Kyra...
20 Jul 2017
Oxford University Press has just published a new collection on the challenges of adjudicating purported conflicts between particular human rights: When Human Rights Clash at the European Court of Human Rights: Conflict or Harmony? According to the publisher’s...
