News

In 2022, the Society is continuing to offer a mixture of in person and online events.

The December edition of our newsletter is now available here.

Peter Collier’s lecture “50 years of Safeguarding – 950 years of Clergy discipline: Where do we go from here?” has been posted to Youtube.

A recorded ELS lecture which can be seen on our Youtube channel.

A recorded ELS lecture which can be seen on our Youtube channel.

A new video on the ELS Youtube channel.

The October edition of our newsletter is now available.

The subject of the latest video on our Youtube channel is “The Law and Religion Scholars Network (LARSN).” The convenor of the network, Christopher Grout talks about its past, present, and future.

The Ecclesiastical Law Society Day Conference will take place on Saturday 2 April 2022 in London, on the subject of ‘Accidents of Ecclesiastical Governance: Past, Present and Future?’.

The latest video on our Youtube channel is titled, “A Day in the Life of a DDO.” The Revd Neil Patterson is the Diocesan Director of Vocations & Ordinands (DDO) in the Diocese of Hereford in the Church of England.

The August edition of our newsletter is now available here.

The May edition of our newsletter is now available here.

The Ecclesiastical Law Society offers its deepest sympathies to her Majesty the Queen and all the Royal family on the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh.

The April edition of our newsletter is now available here.

The Society's planned Residential Conference for 2021 instead had to take place online because of COVID restrictions, but a happy consequence of this was that over 200 people registered to attend. The topic of the day was ‘The Solemnization of Matrimony: past, present...

The latest video posted to the ELS Youtube channel is a discussion of 'COVID and Church Committees.' Louise Connacher (Provincial Registrar of York), the Revd Dr Andrea Russell, and the Ven Simon Baker discuss the practical effects of COVID restrictions on PCC...

An updated version of the Legal Opinions Concerning the Church of England is now available on the Church of England website via this link. Although the text of all the opinions was on the website before, the advantage of the recent consolidation is that it is fully...

The Ecclesiastical Law Society is pleased to announce the Final Report of its Working Party on the Clergy Discipline Measure.