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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.

The February edition of our newsletter is now available here.

The ELS is today announcing a pan-Anglican initiative, which is to be undertaken jointly by the Ecclesiastical Law Society and the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff University. The ELS is establishing a number of virtual reading groups, to run between February...

The Clergy Discipline Commission has issued revised guidance on penalties in clergy discipline cases. This replaces former guidance and applies both for the imposition of penalties by a tribunal and for penalties by consent imposed by bishops. Download Penalty...

Public Law Wales has announced a webinar in co-operation with the Welsh Legal History Society, which the Ecclesiastical Law Society is pleased to advertise: The Church in Wales a Century On – the Disestablished Church and the Devolved Constitution Thursday 28th...

The December edition of our newsletter is now available here.

On 10 December 2020, the Ecclesiastical Law Society, in association with Villanova University, Notre Dame University, and the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral, hosted a lecture by the Rt Hon and Rt Revd The Lord Williams of Oystermouth. This was a public...

A further public consultation on the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 has been published by the ELS Working Party.

The November edition of our newsletter is now available here.

The first general meeting of the Ecclesiastical Law Society as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 25 November 2020 commencing at 5.30pm.

Curricula to assist the training in ecclesiastical law of clergy and lay people within the Church of England.