Ecclesiastical law

3PB offer a long track record and expertise in the ecclesiastical law of the Church of England. 3PB barristers offer advice on all areas of law from Clergy Disciplinary Tribunals to faculty proceedings in Consistory Courts and the Court of Arches, and indeed any legal problems that face clergy, parishes and dioceses in the Church of England.

Prominent areas on which we regularly advise include:

• Appointment of clergy and employment of staff
• Marriage law
• Clergy Disciplinary proceedings
• Church buildings and the faculty jurisdiction
• Burial law, memorials and exhumations
• Parish reorganisation
• Charities and trusts
• Church lands, glebe, church houses and church hall

Our lawyers include lay-preachers, counsel who have grown up with parents and grandparents in ministry and part-time vicars so understand the challenges facing those in full-time ministry.