Further to recent developments relating to Bangor Cathedral[*], the Representative Body of the Church in Wales has issued a Statement comprising the full text of the motion
approved by the Representative Body on 24 June 2025. This is reproduced in full below. [...]
A paper on future of Parochial Fees, GS Misc 1420 Update on Parochial fees, has been circulated in advance of the meeting of General Synod in York 11-15 July 2025. As a GS
Misc paper it will not be discussed by Synod but “General Synod members are invited to attend a fringe meeting to be held during the July Group of Sessions to discuss [...]
The consistory court judgments reviewed in Ecclesiastical court judgments – June included the ELA review of the recent case Re An Exhumation [2025] ECC Por 1 which followed
the confusion in distinguishing between “the Correct Plot” and “the Incorrect Plot” of cremation ashes, [capitalization in original]. In order to protect [...]
Review of the ecclesiastical court judgments during June 2025 The nine consistory court judgments circulated in June 2025 included: Reordering, extensions and other building
works; Exhumation; and Churchyards and burials. This review also includes: CDM Decisions and Safeguarding; Reports from the Independent Reviewer; Privy Council [...]
Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 As noted previously, the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, which updates key aspects of data protection law, has received Royal Assent. Changes
include clarifying how personal information can be used for research; lifting restrictions on some automated decision making; setting out how to use some cookies [...]
On Friday 20 June 2025, the House of Commons gave the Third Reading to the Private Member’s Bill, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, by 314 votes to 291; it had
its first reading in the House of Lords on 23 June but the date of the second reading is yet to be announced. [...]
Seven lay ministers from dioceses across the Church of England were ordained in May 2025 by a visiting Anglican bishop from South Africa. In this guest post, Andrew Atherstone
provides the first report of this event, based on interviews with several of the leading participants. [...]
I've posted this new paper on SSRN. Abstract: In recent years, religious-freedom issues have become caught up in the nation’s cycle of political and social polarization.
I have argued, on my own and in concert with others, that the only way forward is to protect key interests of both conflicting sides in our major religious-freedom [...]
Further to the Bangor Cathedral Visitation Report and subsequent statement, on 23 June 2025 the Church in Wales has issued the Press Release Statement on Bangor Cathedral Visitation
Report implementation. This notes that the two groups inaugurated in response to Visitation Report and the safeguarding audit by thirtyone:eight have commenced. [...]
As we reported in the most recent roundup, last week the Commons voted to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales. On a free vote, they decided by 379 to 137 to approve
NC1, moved by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, as follows: [...]
