Re St. Nicholas Ash [2025] ECC Can 1

Re St. Nicholas Ash [2025] ECC Can 1

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A widow and her daughters applied for permission to exhume the body of the widow’s late husband from the grave which had been reserved for him and his wife and to reinter it in another grave in the same churchyard. The reason given for the petition was that at about the same time as the burial of the widow’s husband another person had been buried in an immediately adjoining grave and it was alleged that that person had financially abused and exploited one of the daughters of the widow, which caused great distress to the family, whenever they visited the grave of the widow’s husband. The Commissary General granted a faculty: "While this may not amount to a serious psychiatric or psychological problem in the medical sense, I nonetheless give weight to the impact of the status quo on the wellbeing of [the] family."

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18 September 2025
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