Ecclesiastical Law

Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (Church leadership), for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law, or operational policy, governing the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches), the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, and the individual national churches within the Anglican Communion. The way that such church law is legislated, interpreted and at times adjudicated varies widely among these four bodies of churches. In all three traditions, …

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Future of Church Safeguarding · 21 February 2024 English

Professor Jay was appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York in July 2023 to independently: provide options and recommendations for how a new independent safeguarding and …

(BWB) and consulted a KC with expertise in ecclesiastical law to provide legal advice on the changes recommended


Hansard Society · 4 December 2023 English

The UK-wide legislature is the Westminster Parliament, and the devolved nations of the UK also have their own legislatures: the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament) and the Northern …

churchofengland.org/about/leadership-and-governance/ecclesiastical-law/legislation https://www.oxford.gov.uk/in


IEA: Institute of Economic Affairs · 9 June 2023

For Hayek individuals and firms in the market are largely ignorant of the circumstances surrounding the supply and demand of the goods and services they buy and sell, and the …

who dramatically removed the dominance of ecclesiastical law with the murder of Thomas a Beckett in the


Constitution Unit · 21 October 2022 English

In the Accession Declaration Act oath, the sovereign’s obligation to uphold the force of the oath is expressed by the formula ‘to the best of my powers according to law’; …

See Watt G. (2017) ‘The Coronation Oath’, Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 325-41. 14 HO 290/62 for correspondence


Church of England Archbishops' Commissions · 28 July 2022 English

The purpose of the Commission will be to set out a compelling agenda for change, in careful gospel-driven discernment, balancing the needs of individuals, communities, and society, maximising opportunities, and …

in the laws that govern the institution (Ecclesiastical Law, Law of Real Property, Employment Law), most


ECRI: European Commission against Racism and Intolerance · 29 June 2022 English

The ECHR and Hungary in facts & figures

part of press freedom and had came under ecclesiastical law rather the possibility of any meaningful


Secrétariat à l'accès à l'information et à la réforme des institutions démocratiques · 30 March 2021 French

Le présent ouvrage rassemble les cinq rapports d’expertise qui ont été produits pour le compte du procureur général du Québec (PGQ) dans le cadre de la contestation judiciaire de la …

Baldry, «  Parliament and the Church  », Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 17(2), 2015, p. 210. 163 Welsch Scotland have an established Church?  », Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 4(20), 1997, p. 639. 165 Ibid. p BALDRY, T., « Parliament and the Church », Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 17(2), 2015, p. 202-214. BAUBÉROT Does Scotland have an established Church? », Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 4(20), 1997, p. 639-645. OGILVIE


EU: European Union · 18 March 2021 English

1984. 17 This is a provision of Catholic ecclesiastical law rather than Member State law. 6


RACI: Royal Australian Chemical Institute · 10 March 2021 English

There was leakage of the gas, resulting in about situations akin to trying to measure the weight of the two deaths and many non-fatal injuries, and Le Fèvre himself captain …

subject from until age 16 and was expected to ecclesiastical law, which questioned * The terms elective affinities


La Vie des Idées · 2021 French

a Secular World: A European Perspective. Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 14(3), 355-370. • Frégosi, F.


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