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Response to ‘Safeguarding and the law’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2025

Christopher Hill*
Affiliation:
Bishop of Guildford, 2004–2013

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© Ecclesiastical Law Society 2025

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References

1 P Collier, ‘Safeguarding and the law’ (2025) 27 Ecc LJ 355–379.

2 Ibid, 356.

3 Ibid, 357–358.

4 Ibid, 358–359.

5 cf. Safeguarding and Clergy Discipline Measure 2016.

6 Ecclesiastical Offices (Terms of Service) Regulations 2009. See further M Hill, Ecclesiastical Law, 4th edn (Oxford, 2018), paras 4.43–4.44.

7 Collier (note 1), 369.

8 Canon C8, para 3.

9 See further House of Bishops’ Policy on Granting Permission to Officiate (July 2018), paras 6.2–6.3.

10 Clergy Discipline Measure 2003, s 8(4), soon to be replaced (when it comes into force) by the Clergy Conduct Measure 2025, s 3(4).

11 Collier (note 1), 370–371.

12 Ibid, 371.

13 Ibid, 371–372.

14 Ibid, 372–375.

15 Ibid, 375.

16 Ibid, 377.

17 Ibid, 377–378.

18 Ibid, 378–379.