Charities: Poor employees and poor relations

Farrer & Co | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | December 2012 #142
Paul Ridout examines the consequences of the Upper Tribunal’s determination on the Attorney General’s Reference on benevolent funds and certain other poverty charities The tribunal followed its decision in the Independent Schools Council case and confirmed that different charitable purposes have different tests of public benefit. One single evening lecture, which formed part of my …

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HMAG v Charity Commission & ors FTC/84/2011

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | July/August 2012 #121

A Notice of Reference dated 27 January 2011 was made by Her Majesty’s Attorney General following concerns expressed by the Charity Commission that the Charities Act 2006 (2006 Act) had cast doubt on the continued charitable status of certain charitable trusts. The trusts affected were trusts for the relief of poverty where the class of potential beneficiaries were defined by a family relationship, employment or former employment status or membership of an unincorporated association. There were 11 parties and 19 interveners. Other than the Charity Commission, each of the pa...