On Tuesday 10 February 2026, General Synod considered the Reintroduction/Final Approval of the Clergy Conduct Measure, Clergy Conduct Measure, GS 2311B and Report by the

Legislative Committee (Clergy Conduct Measure), GS 2311W. [...]

The recently reported case Re St. John the Baptist Tideswell [2025] ECC Der 2 concerns the replacement of the gas boilers at a Grade I listed church which had been damaged

by flooding. The initial request for like-for-like replacement was refused because it failed to demonstrate “due regard” to the Church of England’s Net Zero [...]

Nearly eighty years after Japan adopted constitutional provisions separating religion and the state, Japanese courts continue to grapple with a question familiar to American

lawyers: how to enforce separation without severing law from history, tradition, and social practice. [...]

Financial support for listed places of worship The details of future financial support for listed places of worship continue to emerge in dribs and drabs. In reply to a written

question from Tonia Antoniazzi (Gower, Lab) asking the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of recently [...]

The Church of England’ General Synod will meet in London from 9 to 13 February 2026. Links to the agenda and papers were included in our post here. Below are further links

to the House of Laity of the General Synod, and the Convocations of Canterbury and York which will meet on the afternoon of  9 February 2026. [...]

On 4 February, the Diocese of Bristol issued a Press Notice announcing the completion of the first stage of a consultation to determine the future of All Saints Church, Corn

Street. The church, formerly known as All Hallows, contains the tomb of Edward Colston and a memorial to him by Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack. [...]

Later this month, the Mattone Center will co-host its annual symposium with the St. John’s Journal of Catholic Legal Studies. This year’s panel will address Roake v. Brumley,

the 5th Circuit case on the constitutionality of displaying the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. [...]

In 2015 as part of a reordering project, the ground floor of the tower of All Saints, Wrington[1] was converted into a vestry, “shielded from the nave by a wooden screen

situated neatly within the tower arch”. The vestry has a wooden floor and various cupboards; beneath the floor was included a foul drainage connection;  although [...]