Following his recent appointment, Kevin Wilson, from the UK Top 50 law firm Birketts has now started his role as our next registrar and the legal adviser to the Bishop of Guildford.
Kevin succeeds Howard Dellar from Lee Bolton Monier-Williams LLP (LBMW) who was Diocesan Registrar since 2011.
Each diocese has a Diocesan Registrar who advises on a wide range of legal matters for clergy, parish officers, PCCs, the Diocesan Board of Finance and its committees including on clergy appointments, ordinations, faculties, pastoral reorganisations, clergy discipline and marriage law.
Kevin has a background in commercial law and moved into ecclesiastical law having studied for a Master’s degree (LLM) in Canon Law at the University of Cardiff where he focused on the practical aspects of the law concerning the Church of England.
Kevin was previously a Partner at Birketts and is already the Deputy Registrar for the Dioceses of London, Norwich and St Edmundsbury & Ipswich.
Kevin is a PCC member of his local church, lives in the Diocese of Oxford with his wife, two children, and two rescue cats. He volunteers as a legal advisor at a London legal advice clinic and is a school governor.
Birketts’ Ecclesiastical Team comprises leading experts in this specialist and complex area of law. The highly experienced team offers advice on all aspects of the law of the Church of England to clergy, laity, church officers, parishes, dioceses and the national church institutions as well as to bishops and cathedral deans and chapters.