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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Wills & Trusts Law Reports | June 2015 #150The Human Dignity Trust (HDT) is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 16 December 2010. It was established to support people whose human rights were violated by the criminalisation of private, adult, consensual homosexual conduct, including by assisting them and their lawyers to bring litigation in domestic courts and tribunals, or against a state before international courts and tribunals. Its objects were to promote and protect human rights throughout the world, including the rights to human dignity and to be free from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the ...
Mark Herbert QC discusses the implications of Shergill v Khaira ‘The court will still not adjudicate on the truth or validity of religious beliefs, but it must not shy away from deciding on their existence where that is necessary in order to determine legal issues which are themselves justiciable.’ In Shergill v Khaira the Supreme …
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Sam Macdonald and Elizabeth Jones examine the updated Charity Commission guidance on public benefit ‘It is clear that the government sees attempting to draw up a statutory definition of public benefit as being no easy solution, given the range of charitable purposes that exist.’ New public benefit guidance was published by the Charity Commission in …
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