Charity Law in UK Law
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The employment law implications of charity mergers
Examines the employment law implications for charities considering merger. Considers the employment law problems that are involved in charity mergers and the different strategies that have been emp...
- Foundations of Charity Law in the New Welfare State
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Lehtimäki v Cooper: Duty and Jurisdiction in Charity Law
Lehtimäki v Cooper is a significant Supreme Court decision which establishes that the members of charitable companies are in a fiduciary relationship with respect to the purposes of their organisat...
- Mary Synge, The ‘New’ Public Benefit Requirement: Making Sense of Charity Law?, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015, xii + 253 pp, hb, £60.00.
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Liberal Neutrality and Charitable Purposes
Under UK charity law, organisations seeking charitable status must demonstrate, inter alia, that they will pursue a purpose the state deems ‘charitable’. Such purposes inevitably reflect conception...... ... Liberal Neutrality and Charitable Purposespost_942 936..952Nick MartinUniversity College LondonUnder UK charity law, organisations seeking charitable status must demonstrate, inter alia, that they will pursue apurpose the state deems charitable. Such purposes ... ...
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Using the Wrong Policy Tools: Education, Charity, and Public Benefit
A recent decision on the application of public benefit under the Charities Act 2006 sidestepped the political debate surrounding the charitable status of independent fee‐charging schools. The broad...
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The Charities Act 2022 and its Dissuasive Effects on Donors
The Charities Act 2022 is the product of a report, Technical Issues in Charity Law, by the Law Commission. It is argued that certain headline reforms in the legislation should not be understood as ...... ... Charities Act 2022 and its Dissuasive Eectson DonorsJohn PictonThe Charities Act 2022 is the product of a report, Technical Issues in Charity Law,bytheLawCommission. It is argued that certain headline reforms in the legislation should not be under-stood as merely technical. In order to give ... ...
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Using equality legislation as a sword
This article argues that there is potential for equality legislation to be used proactively to contest attempts by public authorities to remove funding from groups who share protected characteristi...... ... This follows on from the first empirical study of the impact of theEquality Act 2010 on charities in the United Kingdom, conducted by the Charity Law andPolicy Unit, University of Liverpool (the study). One finding of the study was that cha-rities in the United Kingdom are using the Act to ... ...
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REVIEWS
Book reviewed in this article: English and American Judges as Lawmakers. By L. L. Jaffe Venturing to do Justice. By R. E. Keeton The English Penal System in Transition. By J. E. Hall Williams. Labo...... ... J. B. CnONIN. HISTORY OF THE LAW OF CHARITY 1532-1827. By GARETH JONES, Fellow of Trinty College and Lecturer in Law in the University of Cambridge, Barrister-at-Law, ... ...
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Combating terrorism by constraining charities? Charity and counter‐terrorism legislation before and after 9/11
How does counter‐terrorism legislation – enacted in democratic states – impact upon charities, intentionally or unintentionally? To address this question, we present a new analytical framework that...
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