In considering a petition for a final faculty to authorise the introduction of a digital organ which had initially been authorised by an interim faculty, the Commissary General held that consideration of the petition should be from ‘first principles’. It had been made clear to the petitioners that the grant of the interim faculty would not prejudice the consideration of the subsequent petition and they had proceeded at their own risk in laying out £15,000 on the digital organ in reliance on the interim faculty. An objection to the grant of a faculty was received but, in the event, the petitioners' case for the new instrument was made out and a final faculty was granted. [Alexander McGregor]