Burial in UK Law

  • Scottish Burial Reform and Cremation Society Ltd v Glasgow Corporation
    • House of Lords
    • 26 July 1967
  • Abbasi and another (visits - bereavement - Article 8)
    • Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
    • 29 May 2015
    ... ... a mother complained that the hospital authorities had refused her permission to take the corpse of her still born child for religious and burial purposes. The complaint was declared inadmissible on a factual basis, the Court noting the absence of any convincing evidence to counter the ... ...
  • 1) Mrs Jean Timmins and Another v Gedling Borough Council Westerleigh Group Ltd (Interested Party)
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 11 March 2014
    ... ... The provision of a crematorium and a burial ground is better than just a crematorium alone. Having a cemetery for the burial and scattering of ashes on the same grounds as the crematorium means ... ...
  • Mrs Jean Timmins and Another v Gedling Borough Council Westerleigh Group Ltd (Interested Party/Appellant)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 January 2015
    ... ... • The provision of a further 3 acres of burial land which will relieve pressure on cemetery facilities throughout the District …." ... 16 The report on ... ...
  • Burrows v HM Coroner for Preston
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 15 May 2008
    ... ... Mr Burrow 's solicitors wrote to her on a number of occasions to ask about this, but there was no reply. She was insisting on burial although she told the court that she knew that this was against Liam's express wishes. Perhaps, understandably, given her Irish Catholic background, ... ...
  • R (Ghai) v Newcastle upon Tyne City Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 February 2010
    ... ... The long title to the Act states that it is “[a]n Act for the regulation of the burning of Human Remains and to enable Burial authorities to establish crematoria” ... 7 Section 2 of the Act provides that in that Act: “The ... ...
  • Derick Hartshorne v Gillian Helen Monica Gardner
    • Chancery Division
    • 14 March 2008
    ... ... The Claimant, although he himself lives in Worcester, wants a burial in Kington: the Defendant a cremation in Worcester, where she continues to live. Worcester and Kington are some forty miles apart. The deceased's ... ...
  • R v Gwynedd County Council ex parte B
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 1991
    ... ... 16 Section 25 (which is within Part III) is in the following terms: "Burial or cremation of deceased children. (1) A local authority may cause to be buried or cremated the body of any deceased child who immediately ... ...
  • R (Ghai) v Newcastle upon Tyne City Council
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 08 May 2009
    ... ... with assisting persons of no religious faith, and those like the claimant of strong religious faith, to obtain lawful access to cremation or burial of human remains in natural circumstances. BACKGROUND ... The claim ... 2 At the end ... ...
  • Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council and Another v Robin Makin and Others
    • Chancery Division
    • 13 October 2017
    ... ... the proceedings, the body has not been removed [REDACTED] by Mr Makin or another person so entitled, it should be permitted to arrange for its burial or cremation. X submits that the deceased's body should be lawfully and decently disposed of without further delay ... 9 ... ...
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