Talk:Faculty Office

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I have removed some inaccurate and unreferenced content, removed some content which was merely repetitious, and provided references to what remains.

I am unsure whether further detail of the three principal jurisdictions of the Faculty Office needs to be set out here. There are links to Lambeth Degree and Notary public. The content of these seems to me to be accurate. One needs to trawl through other jurisdictions to find the content on notaries public in England and Wales, but what is there seems detailed and accurate. The content for special marriage licences, on the marriage licence page is, in my view, poor and inaccurate. I shall see if I can revise it. It needs to be noted that a special licence (issued by the Faculty Office) is considerably more wide-ranging than a common marriage licence (issued by the relevant Diocesan Registry). I have emphasised this distinction between the two in some referenced content that I have put in the Structure section of Church of England, as that was confusing the different sorts of marriage licence.

Could someone please put a link so that "Faculty Office" redirects to the Article page. That is what it is generally called. Although the Master of the Faculties can hear disputes, the bulk of the business of the Faculty Office is non-contentious.Ntmr (talk) 12:37, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

In view of the poor quality of the information on special licences in the marriage licence Article I have copied from the Church of England Article some further detail which I had put there, and added it to this Article.Ntmr (talk) 12:57, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

@Cagliost: Thank you for tidying up the introduction and changing the name of this Article. I don't feel, however, that "an organisation in English law" quite describes what it is. It is, in fact, quite difficult to define it. Do you think "a regulatory body in English law" would be appropriate? The functions that it performs must seem quite random until one looks at its historical origins. Although it acts mainly as a legal registry, it could (I think) still function as a court: if there was a dispute involving e.g. whether a notary was properly insured or qualified, the matter would be heard by the Master of the Faculties, who would then presumably be sitting as or in "The Court of Faculties". There is a possible analogy in that lawyers refer to grants of representation being made by the "Probate Court" when, in practice, the vast majority of grants issue as non-contentious business from the Probate Registry.Ntmr (talk) 18:19, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi Ntmr, Feel free to be bold and make such relatively uncontroversial changes without discussing on the Talk page beforehand. cagliost (talk) 09:13, 5 July 2021 (UTC)