Timothy Briden
Call
Called 1976
Practice group
Appointments
Vicar-General of the Province of Canterbury
Chancellor of the Diocese of Bath and Wells
Chancellor of the Diocese of Truro
Member of the Legal Advisory Commission of the General Synod
Secretary of the Ecclesiastical Judges Association
Member of the Rule Committee constituted under the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991
Education
Ipswich School
Downing College, Cambridge (Scholar) MA, LLB
Practice
Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence and related Professional Negligence claims.
Ecclesiastical law.
Experience
Conduct for both Claimants and Defendants of all types of personal injury and fatal accident claims, including asbestos cases. Health & Safety prosecutions. Practice in the Ecclesiastical Courts and the High Court and Court of Appeal in church-related cases.
Reported cases include
Re All Saints, Mebourn [1990] 1 WLR 833 (church extension - Court of Arches)
Re Tonbridge School Chapel (No 2) [1993] Fam 281 (private chapel; faculty jurisdiction - Consistory Court)
R v Board of Trustees of Science Museum [1993] 1 WLR 1171 (Health & Safety; Legionnaire's disease - Court of Appeal)
Re St James, Shirley [1994] Fam 134 (font - Consistory Court)
Re West Norwood Cemetery [1994] Fam 210 and [1998] Fam 84 (municipal cemetery; faculty jurisdiction - Consistory Court)
Re St Luke the Evangelist, Maidstone [1995] Fam 1 (alterations to church; guidelines - Court of Arches)
Re St Michael and All Angels, Tettenhall Regis [1995] Fam 179 (church extension, disturbance of human remains - Court of Arches)
Re St Mary the Virgin, Sherborne [1996] Fam 63 (removal of window by Pugin - Court of Arches)
Re Holy Trinity, Bosham Times 12 December 2003 [2004] Fam 125 (disinterment; putative grave of King Harold II - Consistory Court)
Publications
Editor, Macmorran's Handbook for Churchwardens and Parochial Church Councillors
Membership
Ecclesiastical Judges Association
Ecclesiastical Law Society
Selden Society
Interests
History, heraldry, the countryside
