The petitioner and his family were all Buddhists. Following the interment of the remains of three members of his family in consecrated ground, the petitioner was advised that their interment had not been in accordance with Buddhist tradition and that this was considered to affect adversely the spirits of the deceased. The steps required to comply with Buddhist beliefs required the exhumation of the remains and their subsequent re-interment in unconsecrated ground. One set of remains would need to be cremated prior to re-interment. The chancellor granted a faculty for the exhumation of the remains on the basis that doing so would allow the petitioner to rectify a mistake. The fact that the relevant Buddhist beliefs were inconsistent with Christian belief did not mean that they were to be disregarded for the purpose of establishing that a mistake had been made at the time of the original interments. [Alexander McGregor]