McGovern v Attorney General

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtChancery Division
Year1981
Date1981

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    ...consider the meaning of "political" in some detail. I agree with them and Mr Pannick that the judgment of Slade J. in McGovern v A.- G. [1982] Ch 321 provides assistance. Slade J. was concerned with the question whether a trust of Amnesty International was entitled to charitable status. He ......
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    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 42 No. 2, January 2019
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    ...Law Review 871, 871-2, 875-6 ('Distinguishing Charity and Politics'). (2) Re Green's Will Trusts [1985] 3 All ER 455. (3) McGovern v A-G [1982] 1 Ch 321 ('McGovern'). (4) Juliet Chevalier-Watts, Law of Charity (Thomson Reuters, 2014) 5-6. (5) Statute of Charitable Uses 1601, 43 Eliz 1, c 4 ......
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    ...be, and indeed whether such a change was justiciable. It is to this issue that this paper now turns. 22 McGovern v Attorney-General [1982] 1 Ch 321. 23 Chevalier-Watts, above n 6, at 147. 24 McGovern v Attorney-General , above n 22 at 334 25 National Anti-Vivisection Society v Inland Revenu......
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    ...(n 35) 55. (41) Ibid. (42) Adam Parachin, 'Charity, Politics and Neutrality' (2016) 18 Charity Law and Practice Review 23, 24. (43) [1982] 1 Ch 321 (44) Ibid 354. (45) Ibid 340. (46) Ibid. (47) See Royal College of Surgeons of England v National Provincial Bank Ltd [1952] AC 631, 655-60 (Lo......