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Burial Instructions and the Governance of Death

Published:2012-09-28 Issue:1 Volume:12 Page:59-95
ISSN:1472-9342
Container-title:Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal
language:en
Short-container-title:Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal

Author:

Conway Heather¹

Affiliation:

1. School of Law, Queen's University Belfast. Earlier versions of this article were presented as research papers at Fordham University, New York, Queen's University Belfast and the University of Manchester. Thanks to all of those who participated, and gave me much to think about before completing the final draft! Thanks also to Stephen White, Research Fellow, Durham University and Visiting Lecturer, Cardiff Law School and to Professor Prue Vines, University of New South Wales for reading and commenting on...

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Subject

Law

Link

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.5235/147293412803188865

Reference231 articles.

1. Schloendorff v The Society of the New York Hospital 105 NE 92 (1914) (Cardozo J).

2. Tanya K Hernandez, ‘The Property of Death’ (1999) 60 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 971, 1025.

3. Ghai v Newcastle City Council (Ramgharia Gurdwara Hitchin intervening) [2009] EWCH 978 (Admin). On appeal, the primary issue was whether a structure proposed by Mr Ghai to allow for open-air cremations constituted a permissible ‘building’ for the purposes of the Cremation Act 1902 and Cremation (England and Wales) Regulations 2008, SI 2008 No 2841. SeeGhai v Newcastle County Council[2010] EWCA Civ 59.

4. The reference to ‘family’ denotes those persons whom the deceased regarded as such while alive and who were bound to the deceased by means of emotionally significant relationships, even if this does not coincide with the legal definition of next-of-kin.