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Denmark and Others v Commissioner of Valuation for Northern Ireland

Irish Jurist Reports (Digests) Cited authorities 2 Cited in Precedent Map Related
Vincent
JurisdictionNorthern Ireland
Judgment Date01 January 1963
Date01 January 1963
CourtLands Tribunal (Northern Ireland)
(Co. Ct.)
Denmark and Others
and
Commissioner of Valuation for Northern Ireland

Charity - Hereditaments occupied as residences for teachers in school for handicapped children and situate in school curtilage - Teachers required to occupy houses and to perform duties after school hours - Whether hereditaments used exclusively for charitable purposes.

Three dwelling-houses standing in the same curtilage as a school for handicapped children were occupied respectively by the principal, the vice-principal and an assistant teacher in the school. The principal and the vice-principal were required, as a condition of their employment, to reside in the houses provided for them, and the assistant teacher was entitled, by his terms of service, to a free house during any period in which he was a resident teacher performing out-of-school duties. The school was partly residential, 96 out of approximately 200 pupils being kept as boarders under the care of a number of house mothers in parts of the main school building, but the three teachers, together with the matron and the wife of the principal, constituted the chief members of the supervision staff, and at least one of them was on duty throughout the twenty-four hours of each day. In practice, this was achieved by means of a rota system under which the principal and the matron were together on duty after normal school hours every other week, while the intervening weeks were taken alternately by the vice-principal and the resident assistant...

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