caa a22 4500 386387583 CHVBK 20180307112103.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0956618X00000296 doi S0956618X00000296 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0956618X00000296 McClean David Professor of Law, University of Sheffield, Chairman of the House of Laity of General Synod Women Priests the Legal Background [Elektronische Daten] [David McClean] In the coming months, the General Synod and then the diocesan synods will be considering legislation enabling bishops of the Church of England to ordain women to the office of priest, and making related provisions as to the manner and effect of this change in the law and practice of the Church of England. The purpose of this article is not to examine that draft legislation, which at the time of writing is still being subjected to line-by-line scrutiny in a Revision Committee of the General Synod, but to sketch in some of the legal background against which it was prepared. In particular, there is a fundamental issue: why is legislation needed? To which may be added: why is Parliamentary authority, expressed by the approval of a Measure, required for any necessary change in the Canons? Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1989 Ecclesiastical Law Journal Cambridge University Press 1/5(1989-07), 24-29 0956-618X 1:5<24 1989 1 ELJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X00000296 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X00000296 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McClean David Professor of Law, University of Sheffield, Chairman of the House of Laity of General Synod NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ecclesiastical Law Journal Cambridge University Press 1/5(1989-07), 24-29 0956-618X 1:5<24 1989 1 ELJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge