The deceased died in August 1994 and was buried a month later in the consecrated section of Manchester's Southern Cemetery, near to some Chinese graves, despite being from a Chinese Buddhist family. His death had been sudden, traumatic and pre-dated the provision of any specific area for the burial of Chinese of Buddhist descent. In 2016 the deceased's wife died, having requested that her cremated remains be stored at Manchester's Buddhist Fo Guan Shan, where a space had also been reserved for her husband's cremated remains. The petition was brought by the deceased's children for the exhumation of their father's remains so that they could be cremated and stored at the Fo Guan Shan alongside their mother, in accordance with her wishes. The chancellor found that in this case the burial had been made by mistake because, seeing only the Chinese graves, the deceased's family had not realised that the burial was in consecrated ground. As Buddhists, the deceased and his family should not be bound by Christian theologies of burial. A faculty was granted. [Catherine Shelley]