The Human Dignity Trust v The Charity Commission For England and Wales CA/2013/0013

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | June 2015 #150

The 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 ...

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...

The Independent Schools Council v The Charity Commission [2011] UKUT 421 (TCC)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | January/February 2012 #116

The Independent Schools Council (ISC) brought an application for judicial review, seeking an order to quash certain parts of guidance issued by the Charity Commission (CC) comprising the ‘Charities and Public Benefit – the Charity Commission’s General Guidance on Public Benefit’ (issued January 2008) and ‘Public Benefit and Fee Charging’ and ‘The Advancement of Education for the Public Benefit’ (both issued in December 2008). ISC alleged that the guidance included errors of law in respect of the public benefit requirement as applied to ...