Charitable Trusts in UK Law

  • Harding v R & C Commissioners
    • Chancery Division
    • 12 January 2007
    ... ... Gift to the Diocese of Westminster on charitable trusts 4 ... ...
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Baddeley
    • Court of Appeal
    • 18 May 1953
    ... ... to be regarded as "made to a body of persons established for charitable purposes only or to trustees of a trust so established" within the meaning ... agree with Lord Justice Jenkins that the overriding purpose of the trusts therein respectively contained are the promotion of the religious, social ... ...
  • Latimer and Others v Commissioner of Inland Revenue
    • Privy Council
    • 25 February 2004
    ... ... 12 Clause 9 set out the trusts on which the forestry rentals were to be held: ... of the Trust (assisting Maori claims before the Tribunal) was a charitable purpose under the law of New Zealand. But that is no longer an issue ... ...
  • London Borough of Merton Council v Nuffield Health
    • Supreme Court
    • 07 June 2023
    Application of general charity law. Public benefit requirement. Directly equivalent principle of interpretation of domestic legislation. Charitable purposes
    ... ... for a charity and the hereditament is wholly or mainly used for charitable purposes (whether of that charity or of that and other charities)” ... General [1983] Ch 159 for the old and In re Sahal's Will Trusts [1958] 1 WLR 1243 for the young. But however broadly defined, the ... ...
  • HM Attorney General v Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 17 April 2023
    Permission to appeal. Interests of the trust
    ... ... BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES PROPERTY, TRUSTS AND PROBATE LIST (ChD) Rolls Building 7 Fetter Lane London ... on 21 January 2022 ( [2022] EWHC 65 (Ch)), I directed that the charitable trust fund referred to as the “National Fund” be applied cy-près by ... ...
  • Harris, and Others v Sharp, and Another (1st Defendant/Appellant) (2nd Defendant/Respondent)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 March 1989
    ... ... to be regarded as being held by you my solicitors for the said charitable purpose ... 4 (3) "I express the wish that it ... before the £50,000 was applied for or irrevocably settled upon trusts for the Fellowship ... 38 The word "irrevocable" in ... ...
  • Hunter and Others v Attorney-General and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 18 May 1899
    ... ... construction of the Will of the testator Edward Hunter deceased the trusts of the said Will declared and entrusted to special trustees were void and ... personal estates are devised and bequeathed upon good and valid charitable trusts which ought to be carried into effect accordingly," be, and the ... ...
  • Re Richardson Deceased Ireland and Another v Spalding and Another
    • Court of Appeal
    • 22 July 1952
    ... ... The question is, whether the testatrix has effected a valid charitable disposition? Since the case in this Court ( of In re Compton 1945 y Division, 123) the law in relation to educational trusts cannot, I think, be regarded as in doubt. That was a case, it may be ... ...
  • Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Ltd v HM Attorney General
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 November 2023
    Endowment fund for general charitable purposes. National debt. Trustee on the following trusts. Spirit of the gift
    ... ... on this appeal is the appropriate application of funds held on charitable trusts under a cy-près scheme made by the court in the exercise of its ... ...
  • Peter Wilkinson v Jessica Hicken
    • Chancery Division
    • 18 May 2023
    Testamentary capacity. Personality disorder. Charitable trust. Burden of proof. Witness statement
    ... ... BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES PROPERTY TRUSTS AND PROBATE (ChD) Birmingham Civil And Family Justice Centre ... of the Claimants, who are the Trustees of the Norman Gill Charitable Trust (“ the Charitable Trust ”), which was established on 16 ... ...
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