Lee Bolton Monier-Williams

Ecclesiastical and Education, Charities and Not for Profit

Ian is a Partner in Ecclesiastical and Education and Charities and Not For Profit.

Ian acts for a wide range of charitable organisations, with a particular focus on ecclesiastical and education law.

His practice extends to:-

• the establishment and regulation of charities;
- academies (including academy conversions) and maintained schools, the Education Acts, the law of reverter;
• charity property, acquisition, development and disposal, and trusts of land;
• burial law, churchyards and cemeteries and the post-death treatment of human remains; and
• all matters relating to the Church of England.

Experience

Ian has been a solicitor since 2013 but has worked in the field of ecclesiastical law since 2005. Cases in recent years include:
• amalgamating a village hall and church school charity and facilitating the building of a joint-use school and village hall building on a new site;
• pursuing an amendment to the Higher Education and Research to safeguard the right of the Archbishop of Canterbury to award degrees; and
• making a successful application to release the remains of the late Captain Flinders (who circumnavigated and first named Australia), dug up at Euston Station, to his family for burial.

Career to date

• Is the author of respected publications on the law of marriage, ecclesiastical law and the law of burial and cremation and has a detailed knowledge of the law of school sites and trusts.
• Is the Registrar to the Bishop of Lincoln and a notary public for ecclesiastical purposes.
• Is Deputy Registrar of the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Is Deputy Registrar of the Dioceses Guildford.
• Out of work is a Governor of St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Hornsey, a member of the Hornsey St Mary and St George Parochial Church Council and a trustee of the Friends of the Church in China.
• Was an ecclesiastical clerk in Lee Bolton Monier-Williams and the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury from 2005 until 2011.

Ian holds an LL.M in law, a further LL.M in Canon Law and an M.A in History (Cantab).