## **Annual Report of the Trustees of the Edmund Plowden Trust for 1[st] November 202431[st] October 2025.** 

The trustees met on two occasions:  25[th] November 2024 and 12[th] July 2025. 

The trust continued with the publication of the journal Law and Justice, the Christian Law Review and in this period two issues of the journal were produced of which the main contents were: 

## **Trinity/Michaelmas 2024** 

Clergy discipline in the Church of England                                                          Peter Collier Human Rights Implications for the British Constitution                                    Dominik Lasok Dominik Lasok: an obituary                                                                                   Paul Lasok Vicarious Liability and Enterprise Risk: a Benefit or Jeopardy Centred Approach? 

Helen Hall and Javier Garcia Oliva 

Office holders and their Duties and Rights in Catholic Canon Law         Robert Ombres OP Rethinking ‘law and religion’: Russell Sandberg reflects critically on its academic focus and future direction                                                                                              Frank Cranmer 

## **Hilary/Easter 2025** 

Catholic Social Teaching and Employment Law                                              Max D Winthrop Can Clergy be Unionised? – an account of how it has emerged                         Peter Hobson 

The Law of Charities and Social Welfare: a study in the interaction between law and Christian teaching                                                                                           John Duddington 

Religious Discrimination and the Church of Scotland (Lord High Commissioner) Act 2025 

The Office of Lord Chancellor: a note on the disqualification of Roman Catholics 

We were pleased to welcome two new members of the editorial board: , Dr. Peter Petkoff and  Sarah Fraser Butlin KC. 

Although outside the period covered by this report it is worth mentioning that the trustees continued with preparations for the series of lectures which are now put on with Notre Dame London and with the financial support of the Newman Association under the title of the Richard O’Sullivan Memorial Lecture . 

The 2024 lecture is to be given by Prof. Sir Malcolm Evans, Principal of Regent’s Park College, Oxford and formerly Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol., on Thursday 6th November 2025, just outside the period of this report. The topic will be: 'Religion, Torture and Human Rights: an international lawyer's perspective'. The next lecture, scheduled for spring/summer of 2026, will be by Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell who is Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law  and Professor of International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. 



## **EDMUND PLOWDEN TRUST** 

Registered Charity No. 1208525 

## **Provisional Profit and Loss Account and other Income for the Period 4 June 2024 to 31 December 2024** 

## **Income:** 

|**Income:**||
|---|---|
|Subscriptions received:|£860|
|Royalties received:|£123.81|
|Total:|£983.81|
|**Expenditure:**||
|Printing:|£779.66|
|Indexing:|£200|
|Total:|£979.66|
|**Surplus/(deficit)**:|£4.15|
|**Current assets:**||
|Premium Bonds:|£5,450|
|Deposit account:|£4,053.28|
|Current account:|£6,049.53|
|Total:|£15,552.81|