The petitioner sought a faculty for the exhumation of her father's cremated remains so that they could be buried with her mother's body in Victoria, Australia. The petitioner was the only member of the family still resident in the UK and she was planning to emigrate to Australia to join six of her siblings living there. The family all supported her wish to reunite her parents in the same grave. In this case the distance between England and Australia and the fact that the deceased had not lived in the UK but died while visiting his daughter for a holiday amounted to exceptional circumstances justifying a departure from the norm of permanence. In addition there was the purpose of reuniting the couple in a family grave given that at the time of her burial the petitioner's mother could not have been buried in the same grave in England. [Catherine Shelley]