In Re Lavender Hill Cemetery Enfield [2026] ECC Lon 1, HS died in 1996 and was buried in Lavender Hill Cemetery [‘LHC’] in consecrated ground. His wife died in 2014 and was buried with HS in a joint plot [9]. The Petitioner, AA, supported by her brother, petitioned to exhume the remains of her parents, HS and RS, to rebury them in Noddfa Cemetery in South Wales [1]. She told the consistory court that she had promised her father, HS, that he would be buried at Noddfa because he had told her that he wished to be buried there with his father [10]. AA said that when HS died, however, though the family contacted Noddfa Cemetery, her mother, RS, who had been diagnosed with dementia [15], wanted HS buried at Lavender Hill, and AA maintained that it was because of her mother’s dementia that she did not remember her late husband’s wish [11]. Continue reading →