A decision to transfer parishes from the area of one incumbent, reducing the benefice was not to be challenged if the transfer was genuinely intended to benefit the spiritual good of the parishioners, despite earlier failure in a challenge to the incumbent.
Citations:
Times 18-Mar-1999, [1999] UKPC 12
Links:
Statutes:
Pastoral Measure 1983, Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977
Ecclesiastical
Updated: 01 June 2022; Ref: scu.159344
