The respondents, who were, respectively, Rector and Associate Rector of the same benefice, admitted deserting their respective spouses and setting up home together. The tribunal therefore considered only the penalty to be imposed. The Bishop of Rochester recommended that both be prohibited from ministry for life, on the grounds that abandoning their parish without notice, deserting their spouses, causing a public scandal and forming an inappropriate relationship meant that he could never again be able to recommend them for ministry. The tribunal found that there was a realistic possibility that the second respondent could, at some point in the future, take up ministerial functions again. She was prohibited for twelve years and the first respondent for life. Both were removed from office and placed on the Archbishops' List. [WA]