The Parochial Church Council (PCC) had been offered funds to replace floodlighting and provide electricity for an external Christmas tree. The work was undertaken without charge by a member of the PCC who was also an electrician. No faculty was sought and the PCC were not informed that a trench would need to be dug across the graveyard for the cabling. When the priest in charge discovered the trench being dug she immediately notified the archdeacon, who ordered the work to stop. Directions were given and the parish sought a faculty for works to make safe the cabling installed. The chancellor outlined the gravity of failure to obtain a faculty for work that risked disturbing human remains, required consultation with the local planning authority, took no account of any advice of the Diocesan Advisory Committee and would be uninsured. The chancellor granted a faculty for removal of the ends of the cable, leaving the buried portion so as not to cause further disturbance to the graveyard. Given the honourable motivations of the electrician in carrying out the work unpaid and the fact that he was unlikely to be the only person who had overlooked the need to seek a faculty, the chancellor declined to order him to pay any contribution towards the remedial works or the court costs. [Catherine Shelley]