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Charities: Widening the legal framework
Mark Pawlowski asks whether political activities should be charitable ‘Should not the line be drawn between objects which are essentially political and objects which are of general social significance?’Charities are becoming more political in character and less concerned with symptomatic relief. The concept of charity today is one of public campaigning, lobbying and self-promotion. But …
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- Bonar Law Memorial Trust v IRC (1933) 49 TLR 220
- Bowman v The Secular Society [1917] AC 406
- Collier v Lindley 203 Cal 641 (1928)
- De Themmines v De Bonneval (1828) 5 Russ 288
- Dunn v Byrne [1912] AC 407
- ex parte Bull [1996] EWCA Civ 1230
- IRC v Temperance Council of the Christian Churches of England and Wales (1926) 136 LT 27
- Jackson v Phillips (1867) 96 Mass 539
- Lewis's Estate 25 Atl 878 (1893)
- McGovern v AG [1982] Ch 321
- National Anti-Vivisection Society v Inland Revenue Commissioners [1947] UKHL 4
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- Re Scowcroft (1898) 2 Ch 638
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