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Ian Blaney
Work Department
Ecclesiastical and Education, Charities and Not for Profit
Position
Ian is a Partner in Ecclesiastical and Education and Charities and Not For Profit.
Career
Ian acts for a wide range of charitable organisations, with a particular focus on ecclesiastical and education law.
His practice extends to:-
• the establishment and regulation of charities;
– academies (including academy conversions) and maintained schools, the Education Acts, the law of reverter;
• charity property, acquisition, development and disposal, and trusts of land;
• burial law, churchyards and cemeteries and the post-death treatment of human remains; and
• all matters relating to the Church of England.
Experience
Ian has been a solicitor since 2013 but has worked in the field of ecclesiastical law since 2005. Cases in recent years include:
• amalgamating a village hall and church school charity and facilitating the building of a joint-use school and village hall building on a new site;
• pursuing an amendment to the Higher Education and Research to safeguard the right of the Archbishop of Canterbury to award degrees; and
• making a successful application to release the remains of the late Captain Flinders (who circumnavigated and first named Australia), dug up at Euston Station, to his family for burial.
Career to date
• Is the author of respected publications on the law of marriage, ecclesiastical law and the law of burial and cremation and has a detailed knowledge of the law of school sites and trusts.
• Is the Registrar to the Bishop of Lincoln and a notary public for ecclesiastical purposes.
• Is Deputy Registrar of the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Is Deputy Registrar of the Dioceses Guildford.
• Out of work is a Governor of St Mary’s Church of England Primary School, Hornsey, a member of the Hornsey St Mary and St George Parochial Church Council and a trustee of the Friends of the Church in China.
• Was an ecclesiastical clerk in Lee Bolton Monier-Williams and the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury from 2005 until 2011.
Education
Ian holds an LL.M in law, a further LL.M in Canon Law and an M.A in History (Cantab).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Public sector > Education: schools
Lee Bolton Monier-Williams is well-known for its ability to advise numerous schools and Diocesan Boards of Education on all educational undertakings. The practice places particular emphasis on school property transactions, having advised on complex site transfers, and is also regularly instructed to advise on a range of charity law issues, especially in connection with the establishment of new educational charities. Practice head Howard Dellar acts for numerous charities and multi-academy trusts and has a strong record of advising on academy conversions, and Ian Blaney is a key contact for Church of England school site acquisitions and land swaps. Khalid Sofi widens the team’s expertise through his ability to advise Muslim charities and schools on governance and strategic issues.