It's a completely new act and therefore does not carry over the bar on royals having civil marriages" Cretney stated:  The 1949 Act is a Consolidation Act. A Consolidation Act does not change the law except in the most minor ways and all it does is to bring together the versions previously scattered amongst the large number of other acts. He followed up with an article. He was supported ten days after the interview by David Pannick QC (as he then was), an administrative law expert who has overturned government interpretation of the law in court on many occasions, and a former attorney general, Sir Nicholas Lyell QC. Lecturing to the Family Law section of the Society of Legal Scholars in September 2006 Cretney warned of future legal challenges designed to prevent Mrs Parker-Bowles becoming Queen or inheriting from the royal family. A further article followed.