Type of Charity in UK Law

  • Hanchett-Stamford v Attorney General and Others
    • Chancery Division
    • 27 Febrero 2008
    ... ... The issues 5 ... Is the League a charity? 5 ... To whom do the assets of the League belong? 9 ... There would be no limit to the type of variation or termination to which all might agree. There is no private ... ...
  • Mohinder Singh Khaira and Others v Daljit Singh Shergill and Others
    • Supreme Court
    • 11 Junio 2014
    ... ... trusts which, by the authority of the donors, are to regulate the charity. And it is irrelevant to urge that the donors did not originally give any ... have been perfectly properly included in a definitive deed of the type which Sir Herbert Cozens-Hardy MR and Parker J respectively sanctioned in ... ...
  • Oppenheim v Tobacco Securities Trust Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 13 Diciembre 1950
    ... ... It is a clearly established principle of the law of charity that a trust is not charitable unless it is directed to the public ... ...
  • Scottish Burial Reform and Cremation Society Ltd v Glasgow Corporation
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Julio 1967
    ... ... section grants a partial remission where lands are occupied by a charity and are wholly or mainly used for charitable purposes. If the Appellants ... ...
  • Chichester Diocesan Fund & Board of Finance (Incorporated) v Simpson
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Junio 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 ... D. 472 , but that is regarded as a special and different type. Lord Davey discusses these distinctions in Hunter v. Attorney General , ... ...
  • Varsani v Jesani
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 Abril 1998
    ... ... to make a scheme for the division of the funds of a religious charity when the adherents to the faith for the promotion of which the charity was ... ...
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v City of Glasgow Police Athletic Association
    • House of Lords
    • 09 Marzo 1953
    ... ... Act, 1921 (as amended by section 24 of the Finance Act, 1927) a charity, namely a body of persons established for charitable purposes only". The ... ...
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v McMullen
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Marzo 1980
    ... ... The Charity Commissioners decided that it was so effective, overriding the objections ... ...
  • Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Baddeley and Others (Trustees of the Newtown Trust)
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Febrero 1955
    ... ... For while no comprehensive definition of legal charity has been given either by the Legislature or in judicial utterance, there ... Of the former type repatriated New South Wales soldiers would serve as a clear example. To me ... ...
  • Gilmour v Coats
    • House of Lords
    • 08 Abril 1949
    ... ... of public benefit which is the necessary condition of legal charity. If now for the first time the necessity for determining that question ... example a community such as this is by them regarded as the very type of religious institution which is not charitable. I know of no ... ...
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