In refusing a faculty for the exhumation of the remains of the petitioner's first husband from Aby Cemetery for re-burial in consecrated ground nearer to where she now lived with her new husband, the chancellor held that there were no exceptional reasons to justify exhumation. The medical grounds relied upon by the petitioner, a slipped disc which made it uncomfortable to walk on the uneven ground leading to the grave, were not the type of psychiatric or psychological medical reason envisaged by the Court of Arches in Re Blagdon Cemetery [2002] Fam 299. There was no suggestion here of a psychiatric condition linked to the location of the ashes. [Catherine Shelley]
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