Simrun Garcha reports on the charitable status and disposal of assets of a now defunct religious sect ‘While this case does not decide new matters of principle, it is likely to be of interest to charity law practitioners given that it provides an insight into some complex issues.’The High Court’s recent decision in Buckley v …
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Sarah Foster finds an unexpected party benefits in Philippe v Cameron [2012], a dispute between a tennis club and a church The purpose of the 1954 Act was to validate and restrict to charitable purposes certain instruments that were pre-16 December 1952 and which provided for property to be held or applied for objects that …
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Wills & Trusts Law Reports | September 2012 #122The claimants were the trustees of the St Andrew’s (Cheam) Lawn Tennis Club Trust (the trustees). The trustees sought declarations as to the beneficial ownership of land occupied by the St Andrew’s (Cheam) Lawn Tennis Club (the club) since 1938 (the land).
The church now known as St Andrew’s United Reformed Church Cheam (the church) was originally founded in the 1920s. From the church’s inception many of its members played tennis together and in 1930 they established a tennis club which was to become the club. The club’s first general meeting was held...
Cuppage v Lawson is an example of how the Charitable Trusts (Validation) Act 1954 is working in practice, as William Henderson explains ‘The Act often now “does what it says on the tin” and validates trusts that would otherwise be void.’At a technical level this decision of HH Judge Hodge QC, sitting as a judge …
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