Mr Hughes's cremated remains had been interred with the remains of his father-in-law 40 years ago. His daughter now petitioned for the exhumation of those remains for their re-interment in one of a set of three family graves in a nearby cemetery along with the remains of his wife. The chancellor indicated that, had the application been made by Mr Hughes's wife, he would have been unlikely to grant the faculty as it would have been possible for Mrs Hughes's remains to be united with those of her husband by interring them in that plot. That was no longer possible. The wish to move remains to a family grave might be a special circumstance justifying an exhumation, but whether it was would depend upon the particular facts. In this case the interment of Mrs Hughes's remains in the family plot alongside those of her daughter had been an understandable and proper course and not a device seeking to force the court's hand in this application. The family grave was established and not simply a matter of aspiration. The faculty was granted. [RA]