Operation of the Charity in UK Law

  • Chichester Diocesan Fund & Board of Finance (Incorporated) v Simpson
    • House of Lords
    • 21 June 1944
    ... ... satisfy the rule, because of the favour which the law extends to charity. Most of the cases which have arisen have been due to a tendency on the ... amelioration, involves benevolent motives and their practical operation. It may indeed be that the benevolent motive is less apparent or in a ... ...
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Baddeley
    • Court of Appeal
    • 18 May 1953
    ... ... ' analysis of very different language shows that no such rescue operation is here demanded; that the vital general words appear, not by way of an ... a trust is not charitable and entitled to the privileges which charity confers, unless it is within the spirit and intendment of the preamble to ... ...
  • Attorney General v Trustees of the British Museum
    • Chancery Division
    • 27 May 2005
    ... ... -General may authorise: "a payment…out of charity funds which is motivated simply and solely by the belief of the trustees ... a scheme whereby certain endowments, excepted from the operation of the Endowed Schools Act 1869, would be made over to another governing ... ...
  • Bayoumi v Women's Total Abstinence Union Ltd and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 November 2003
    ... ... against the Women's Total Abstinence Educational Union Limited, a charity, and Mr James Perkins. The appeal raises questions of some general ... the charity itself was wholly or partially exempted from the operation of the 1853 Act —see section 62 of the 1853 Act and section 48 of the ... ...
  • Re Tacon.; Public Trustee v Tacon
    • Court of Appeal
    • 19 December 1957
    ... ... : it is well established that in the case of a gift to a charity (that is, to some body of persons or organization admittedly charitable) ... (1) if the charity has ceased to exist before the Will comes into operation, the felt lapses; but (2) ii the charity is still in existence at the date ... ...
  • Stanislaw Wyniczenko v Krysytyna Plucinska-Surowka
    • Chancery Division
    • 18 November 2005
    ... ... wills goes to one family the other half goes to Pope John Paul and charity. There is an inference that her husband made a will in equivalent terms on ... On 5 th December 2001 she had a successful cataract operation in her right eye ... 29 ... Dr Tailor ... ...
  • Reverend Berhanu Bisrat and Others v Archimandrite Aba Girma Kebede and Others
    • Chancery Division
    • 13 February 2015
    ... ... Tsion, which is an unincorporated association and a registered charity; I shall call it the charity. It holds property in Battersea in Queenstown ... Western European diocese and who therefore is relevant to the operation of the charity's church in Battersea because it is said to be part of that ... ...
  • 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
    ... ... % relief from business rates where: “the ratepayer is a charity or trustees for a charity and the hereditament is wholly or mainly used ... LGFA 1988) indicates clearly that the provision depends upon the operation of the general law of charities. The purpose underlying the enactment of ... ...
  • Adrian Richard Stanway (Plaintiff) v 1. HM Attorney General and Another
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 21 October 1999
    ... ... The Claimant is the receiver and manager, appointed by the Charity Commission, of the charity known as the Royal Masonic Hospital, to which I ... of duty on the part of the Board of Management, and that the operation of the home was in breach of trust and of fiduciary duty on the part of ... ...
  • Derek Colins Associates Ltd and Others
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 31 July 2002
    ... ... an agreement with an organisation which is in almost every case a charity, usually a small one. The agreement provides that DCA will deliver to the ... ; the use of the charity's name is the central key to the operation ... 18 7. The terms of the scripts, and ... ...
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