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Ecclesiastical Case Reports
Re Makin, deceased
(Liverpool Consistory Court: Hamilton Ch, November 2001)
Exhumation - Alder Hey - retained organs
Organs of a deceased child (M) had been retained by Alder Hey hospital after his death. The organs were subsequently returned to M's mother in a casket and buried in consecrated ground in the same grave as M. Discrepancies existed in the information provided to M's mother about the contents of the casket. The petition sought the exhumation of the casket in order that the uncertainty be eliminated by the opening of the casket to determine which organs had been returned. The chancellor refused to grant the petition, observing that there was no expert evidence to show whether it would be possible to make such determination when two years had passed since the burial. He stated that, as a matter of principle, it would not be right to open the grave simply to check its contents when there was so much uncertainty whether it could provide a satisfactory answer.
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