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Reply to Tim Acheson - I know you have personal experience of this problem and your solicitor will be able to help you. I agree with your comments.

Alan Riley - Your views are the mainstream opinions shared by many solicitors who have published similar pieces on their websites. The assumption that CRL is an interest in land and not a personal claim against the lay rector, has given many an unshakeable faith that the Church cannot sue their client for CRL if he bought after 12.10.13 and they searched at the Land Registry and found no notice of CRL. But the Chancel Repairs Act 1932 does not say anything of the kind, and the Land Registration Act 2002 since 12.10.13 is silent on the issue of the status of CRL. If the law is to be as people wishfully assume it to be, a change in the law is necessary. Please write to Prof Elizabeth Cooke at the Law Commission and to Lord Faulks QC the responsible Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice if you want the law to be as you believe it is or should be, either CRL should "excluded" from registration under s. 33 of the 2002 Act, (which would make things much simpler) or there should be an amendment to the Chancel Repairs Act 1932 stating that CRL is not binding on any lay rector against whose title it was not registered on 13.10.2013.