Shiranikha Herbert

Shiranikha Herbert is the Legal Correspondent for Church Times

Articles by Shiranikha Herbert

Exhibition to mark slave-owner turned Abolitionist John Newton

Raising money an insufficient reason to sell church’s treasure, Norwich Chancellor rules

Critical gravestone inscription in St Albans diocese is trespass

Sylvia Plath admirer granted permission to be buried near her

Gaelic-epitaph ruling reversed

Salisbury Diocesan Chancellor rules on cremated remains found deposited in grave

Petition for headstone removal dismissed

Court rules on mementoes in churchyard

Court has last word on grave spaces

Orthodox Jewish housing charity did not break laws against race, Supreme Court rules

Parents’ request to be buried alongside murdered son is granted a faculty

Remains of stillborn child allowed to be re-interred with mother

Lord Carrington banners allowed in listed church

Remains of explorer are to be reinterred

No leave for priest’s appeal against tribunal

Court gives memorial tomb priority over encroaching tree

St Mary Redcliffe may alarm its porch pigeons, court rules

Adopted son granted faculty to exhume remains of birth mother

Sheep image allowed on churchyard memorial

Closed churchyard burial was unlawful, says Court

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