Parties sought to challenge the decision to allow ordination of women by the church. Held: The merits of a religious controversy are a matter on which the court is not entitled to hold any opinion. The measures had been made under the procedure set up by the 1919 Act which gave power to the Synod … Continue reading Williamson v Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of York Church Commissioners: CA 5 Sep 1996
The Church of England has full and effectively sole jurisdiction over own affairs. ‘Any matter concerning the Church of England’ can be read to include any matter at all. The court dismissed an application for leave to move for judicial review in which it was contended that a Measure was not authorised by section 3(6) … Continue reading Regina v European Community, Ecclesiastical Comittee of the Houses of Parliament, Ex Parte the Church Society: QBD 28 Oct 1993
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