Wednesday 21 October 2009 at 12:15

Oxford Legal History Forum
Causa Fidei Laesionis in the English Ecclesiastical Courts and Its Influence on the Court of Chancery

Speaker: Remus Vulsan, Faculty of Law, McGill University and Swiss Institute of Comparative Law

Venue: Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room

The presentation will analyze the relation between the ecclesiastical action of fidei laesio and the early jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. In 1908 Vinogradoff argued that breach of confidence, one of the original heads of jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, “clearly goes back to the Fidei laesio which ecclesiastical tribunals had claimed as their province.” More recent studies have uncovered possible paths of influence of the ecclesiastical action over the common law and Chancery courts.

For more information please contact: Joshua Getzler

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