Ian Blaney has authored a new edition of Atkin’s Court Forms on Ecclesiastical Law, a practitioners’ text about the contentious side of church law. He was also appointed the Consultant Editor to the Halsbury’s Laws of England volume on Burial Law which was published earlier this year and the volume on Coroners (forthcoming). Halsbury’s Laws is considered to be the definitive reference for law in England and Wales. He also contributed a chapter to a book, the Legal History of the Church of England, the first book that attempts to tell the legal history of the Church of England from beginning to date. His chapter looked at what was happening in church law from the death of Elizabeth I, through the reign of James VI and I, Charles I and then into the interregnum and civil wars. The book came out in hardback last year and a paperback version is expected later this year.
Ian practices in ecclesiastical law, charity law and the law of church schools. He also works in the field of burial law, on matters such as the establishment and maintenance of burial grounds.
