The council sought a confirmatory faculty after having laid flat headstones in the cemetry fearing that they were a health and safety risk.
Held: A confirmatory faculty in respect of past actions was refused. A conditional faculty was granted for the future. The council was obliged to restore the gravestones where their actions did not comply with the conditions. There had been considerable developments since the Keynsham case.
James Behrens
Times 15-Feb-2006
Citing:
Cited – In re Keynsham Cemetery ConC 18-Sep-2002
The local burial authority sought to carry out tests on the safety of gravestones.
Held: Tests which were not likely to cause physical damage did not need a faculty, but tests which might require anything more than minor work, by for example . .
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Ecclesiastical
Leading Case
Updated: 02 November 2021; Ref: scu.240086
