Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in UK Law

  • Aston Cantlow and Wilmcote with Billesley Parochial Church Council v Wallbank
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 Mayo 2001
    ... ... Ecclesiastical law is a portmanteau term which embraces not only the canon law but both ... 239 , 245: 'The law is one, but jurisdiction as to its enforcement is divided between the ecclesiastical courts and the ... ...
  • Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Langridge
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Febrero 1991
    ... ... the making of a disqualification order by the court having jurisdiction to wind up a company shall give not less than ten days' notice of his ... "'Monition' (which is sometimes itself called an ecclesiastical censure) is described in the books as of a 'preparatory' nature…i.e. (as ... ...
  • Parochial Church Council v Wallbank
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Junio 2003
    ... ... to be admonished to repair the chancel by the appropriate ecclesiastical court, the court shall give judgment for the cost of putting the chancel ... ratified the Convention to secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms which it protects: Young, James and Webster v ... ...
  • Percy v Church of Scotland Board of National Mission
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Diciembre 2005
    ... ... tribunal dismissed Ms Percy's application for want of jurisdiction. Both complaints comprised 'matters spiritual' and fell within the ... of a curate is the position of a person who holds an ecclesiastical office, and not the position of a person whose rights and duties are ... ...
  • Bourne v Keane
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Junio 1919
  • Salvesen v Administrator of Austrian Property
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Mayo 1927
    ... ... If so it does not matter in law whether it had an exclusive jurisdiction. Had the question been one of divorce for adultery there could to-day have ... voidable, could only be got rid of by the sentence of an Ecclesiastical Court pronounced within the lifetime of the parties. But the status though ... ...
  • E v English Province of Our Lady of Charity and another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Julio 2012
    ... ... In canon law the position of parish priest is an ecclesiastical office which is of its nature perpetual and to which successive ... I am sceptical whether any of the cases from this jurisdiction which I have considered would, if they were re-examined, yield dual ... ...
  • Fullam v Newcastle Chronicle and Journal Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 Marzo 1977
    ... ... ; (d) had wrongly withheld the fact of his marriage from his ecclesiastical superiors and parishioners; (e) that in the premises he was unfit to be ... ...
  • Taczanowska (orse. Roth) v Taczanowski
    • Court of Appeal
    • 06 Junio 1957
    ... ... The relevant law which concerned the ecclesiastical organisation of the Army clergy was passed on the 25th November, 1926, ... 11 Under the heading "Jurisdiction of the Army Clergy". point 10 reads: "The Field Bishop shall exercise ... ...
  • Diocese of Southwark and Others v Coker
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 Julio 1997
    ... ... his employer (Section 54(1)), and the Industrial Tribunal had jurisdiction to hear his claim of unfair dismissal. If he was not, the Industrial ... The first was that a curate holds an ecclesiastical office; the second was that his duties were spiritual. As to the former, ... ...
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