Gail Wallbank comments: "From the beginning we saw this law as fundamentally flawed and morally questionable. We had hoped that our case was an opportunity for this arbitraryand unjust law to be abolished through the courts. Instead, in the 21st century, we are still left with a medieval legal mess.  In the House of Lords , the PCC was financed by the Archbishops' Council (chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury) which had requested donations from dioceses (approx £10,000 each) to help pay for the action. (To coin a phrase 'this speaks volumes'!)

Why was it seen to be so important to crush us in this action? Have we been unwittingly caught up in other hidden agendas? Dis-Establishment? Avoidance of Public Body status? Is it just the temptation to amass huge financial advantage from their grass-root communities? Is it really their religion to put buildings before people?

It has cost us personally, not only financially, but emotionally, and we have had our plans for our lives and our family's future on hold all these years. The members of the PCC and the Cof E management have no such personal or financial costs and return to their homes without the crush of anxiety.

Our greatest hope is that some good may come out of all this and that the vast majority of good solid Christian people in the Cof E will ensure that this nightmare of injustice is not perpetuated. "