In re St Michael the Archangel, Warfield — [2025] WLR(D) 400

In re St Michael the Archangel, Warfield — [2025] WLR(D) 400

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Faculty — Exhumation — Deceased’s surviving widow wishing to inter his body in grave of his first wife — Faculty sought for temporary exhumation of first wife’s mother’s cremated remains with immediate reinterment thereof to facilitate husband’s burial in existing family grave — First wife’s surviving descendants consenting to grant of proposed faculty — Whether exceptional circumstances justifying exhumation