For a conference that wasn't going to produce a lot of paper. They sure seem to be producing a lot of paper. This is a Living Church piece on a document distributed about the common law aspects of the communion. I haven't seen anything else about it and am not sure how it will influence the covenant process. An interesting (if a bit dry) development.“What this is attempting to do is to get an overview of all of it and say we can deduce from what we’ve looked at that there are these principles which must underlie these individual laws,” Canon Rees said. “This is not the covenant and it is not a code of law. These are the principles of law which we’ve deduced. You certainly can’t just go along to a court and read it off. I mean by that it is no prescriptive. You can’t just take and enforce it as a rule of law that is directly applicable. We are not saying that this is the way the law should be because we know that in some provinces they don’t have a law like this. It’s also not the last word.”
http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/7/26/lambeth-bishops-review-communions-legal-principles
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