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Re Undercliffe Cemetery

Bradford Consistory Court: Walford Ch, January 2009 Exhumation – restriction in access to grave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2009

Ruth Arlow
Affiliation:
Barrister, Deputy Chancellor of the Dioceses of Chichester and Norwich
Will Adam
Affiliation:
Rector of Girton, Ely Diocesan Ecumenical Officer
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Abstract

Type
Case Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2009

The chancellor granted permission for the exhumation of the remains of the petitioners' son in circumstances where increasingly restrictive opening times had been imposed at the cemetery where his remains were buried. The petitioners had initially chosen the burial site because it allowed them unrestricted access to their son's grave and they had gained huge comfort from the daily visits that they could no longer enjoy. The restrictions imposed had completely nullified the reasons for the petitioners' original choice of burial site. [RA]