The petitioner sought a faculty for the temporary exhumation of the ashes of two family members from a family plot, to permit the burial of a further family member who had not wished to be cremated. The ashes would be re-interred in the same grave on the same day.

The court questioned whether the exceptionality test for exhumation set out in re Blagdon Cemetery was appropriate in circumstances where the proposal would ensure that the exhumed remains would be returned to the same grave. In any event, the circumstances were appropriate ones in which to make an exception, and a faculty would be issued. [DW]