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Re Scholemoor Cemetery, Bradford

Bradford Consistory Court: Walford Ch, January 2011 Exhumation – no exceptional circumstances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2011

Ruth Arlow
Affiliation:
Barrister, Deputy Chancellor of the Dioceses of Chichester and Norwich
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Abstract

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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2011

Applying Re Blagdon Cemetery [2002] Fam 299, the chancellor held that a desire to fulfil the wish of the petitioner's mother that her husband's ashes should be placed with hers did not amount to exceptional circumstances such as to justify the exhumation and removal of his cremated remains from one cemetery to another. The chancellor held that ‘a wish (however understandable) to reverse a decision made several years ago, which although regretted since was perfectly valid at the time it was made, is not sufficient, in my judgment, for these purposes’. [Alexander McGregor]