The children of Mr and Mrs N sought a faculty permitting the exhumation of the cremated remains of their mother for their re-interment in the grave of their father in the same cemetery. The burial of their mother's remains in 1993 had taken place with the intention and expectation that that burial would be temporary until her remains could be joined with those of her husband in the fullness of time. No-one at the undertakers or at the cemetery had informed the family of the consequences of burial in consecrated ground. The chancellor was satisfied that the family now understood the reasons for the presumption of permanence of Christian burial and did not seek the exhumation lightly. He further found that it was relevant that the remains were to be re-buried in the same burial ground. This was not a case where the remains were being treated as being in some way portable or in which the permanence of Christian burial was being challenged. Rather it was one where there was a proper and understandable proposal to reunite the remains of husband and wife. The faculty was granted. [RA]