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The Genesis of the Society: Kemp, Moore, Routledge et al

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
Affiliation:
Chairman, Ecclesiastical Law Society Bishop of Guildford
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Abstract

In recognition of the Silver Jubilee of the Ecclesiastical Law Society and this Journal, the Comment section in this issue is devoted to some personal reminiscences and reflections from two individuals who were very much involved at the time, and who have subsequently made their own distinctive contribution to the Society and the Journal respectively: Bishop Christopher Hill, the current chairman, and Michael Goodman, founder editor of this Journal.

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 82 - 87
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2012

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References

1 See Kemp, E, Shy But Not Retiring: memoirs, ed Haselock, J (London, 2006), pp 51, 72 and 129Google Scholar.

2 Reprinted in full in this issue: Kemp, E, ‘The spirit of the canon law and its application in England’, (1987) 1 Ecc LJ 5–14Google Scholar; (2012) 14 Ecc LJ 5–19Google Scholar.

3 The first officers included Bishop Kemp as President, Chancellor Graham Routledge as Chairman and Peter Beesley as Secretary. The Committee included, among others, our current President Sheila Cameron, Michael Goodman (who became editor of the Journal and whose own reflections are at pages 87–92 of this issue), Brian Hanson and David Cheetham.

4 Routledge, G, ‘The Society and its future’, (1988) 1 Ecc LJ 18–19Google Scholar.

5 Report of the Archbishops’ Commission on Canon Law, The Canon Law and the Church of England (London, 1947)Google Scholar.

6 Routledge, ‘The Society and its future’, p 19.

7 Ibid. The biennial Lyndwood Lecture, inspired by a suggestion from Oswald Clark, is hosted alternately by the Ecclesiastical Law Society and the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The speakers have been of a uniformly high standard and their lectures are published in both this Journal and the Canon Law Society Newsletter.

8 ‘Aims and objects’, (1987) 1(1) Ecc LJ 2Google Scholar.

9 Report of the Archbishops’ Commission, The Canon Law and the Church of England.

10 Ibid, p 97.

11 Kemp, E, ‘The discipline of the Church: canon law and the ecclesiastical courts’, in Thy Household the Church: proposals for government and order in the Church of England, by a Group of the Clergy (Westminster, 1943)Google Scholar.

12 ‘Reconstruction in the Church of England’, Agenda (1943), reprinted as No 1 of the Church and Realm series published by the Church Literature Association.

13 Kemp, E, An Introduction to Canon Law in the Church of England, (London, 1957)Google Scholar.

14 Ibid (emphasis added).

15 Kemp, Shy But Not Retiring, p 129.