Before its enactment, the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 experienced a stormy passage during the debates in Church Assembly, being roundly attacked as unnecessarily complex and unwieldy by Garth Moore, who represented the University of Cambridge and was at that time Chancellor of the Dioceses of Durham, Gloucester and Southwark. In view of this, it is ironic that the first case under the disciplinary sections of that Measure should have occurred in the Diocese of Gloucester and should have been heard at first instance by Moore, sitting with four assessors, in July 1969.