Court of Peculiars
The Court of Peculiars is one of the ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England. The court sits with a Dean, who is also the Dean of the Arches. The Registrars are the Joint Provincial Registrars. The Court of Peculiars deals with all legal matters from peculiar parishes[a] in the province. Until 1545, ecclesiastical judges were required to have a degree in canon law; thereafter, they only needed a doctorate in civil law. Binding precedent was only introduced into the ecclesiastical courts in the nineteenth century.
List of deans of the court
[edit]- Sir Philip Wilbraham-Baker, c. 1938–1955
- Sir Henry Willink, 1955–1970
- Walter Wigglesworth, 1971–1972
- Sir Harold Kent, 1972–1976
- Kenneth Elphinstone, 1977–1980
- Sir John Owen, 1980–2000
- Sheila Cameron, 2000–2009
- Charles George, 2009–
Notes
[edit]- ^ A peculiar parish is a parish outside the jurisdiction of the diocese in which it is located, see royal peculiar.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Barber, Paul (Winter 1995). "What Is a Peculiar?". Ecclesiastical Law Journal. 3 (16): 299–312. doi:10.1017/S0956618X00002210. ISSN 1751-8539.
- Cox, Noel (2001). "Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the Church of the Province of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia". Deakin Law Review. 6 (2): 266–284.
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