Charity Commission v Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | October 2012 #123

The charity is an organisation working on behalf of the Catholic diocese of Leeds. It provides a number of services to the community at large to promote the relief of poverty and distress. One such service, previously offered, was a voluntary adoption agency that sought to place children with families resembling the Holy Family of Nazareth, ie heterosexual spouses.

A temporary exemption for faith-based adoption agencies from the prohibition on discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation ceased on 31 December 2008. The charity’s adoption service therefore suspended fr...