Alan Collins, of Denys Road, Totnes, writes: Prime Minister David Cameron's view that we live in a Christian country is both philosophically and statistically untrue, but in legal terms it was substantiated by five Law Lords in 2003. Their decision left Andrew and Gail Wallbank liable to pay Warwickshire parish council's chancery repair bill of £100,000 and a legal bill of £250,000. The right to claim chancery repairs from households built on land once owned by the Church of England was upheld in a Land Registry Act passed in 2002, thus proving that this is not a mediaeval anachronism, but something which reflects the thinking of the established ruling class. In October 2013, a similar decision forced 1,000 residents to pay a chancel repair bill of £200,000 to St Andrews Church in Gorleston. No other religious organisation has inherited this legal right to claim repair costs for those places of worship from freeholders.