Charitable trusts

The Charities Act 2011
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/25/contents

The Charity Commission website (excellent resource for all charity-related matters): https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/charity-commission

A U Iwobi 'Rolling Down the Information Highway in Search of Charitable Status' (1998) 5 Web JCLI
http://www.bailii.org/uk/other/journals/WebJCLI/1998/issue5/iwobi5.html

D Morris 'Charity Investment in the UK: Some Contemporary Issues for the 1990s'
http://www.bailii.org/uk/other/journals/WebJCLI/1995/issue3/morris3.html
(1995) 3 Web JCLI

A Dunn 'Charity law - a political scandal?' (1996) 2 Web JCLI
http://www.bailii.org/uk/other/journals/WebJCLI/1996/issue2/dunn2.html

R (on the application of Hodkin and another) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages [2013] UKSC 77
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2013/77.html
Supreme Court decision (but not in the context of charity law) recognizing scientology to be a religion

Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/4/contents/enacted

Attorney General v. Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Ltd [2022] EWHC 102 (Ch).
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2022/102.html
Cy-près applied where trust assets will never be adequate to fulfil the stated purpose of the trust

Charity Commission’s chief executive Helen Stephenson
“Engaging with controversial or divisive issues - reflections for charities” 11 March 2021
https://charitycommission.blog.gov.uk/2021/03/11/engaging-with-controversial-or-divisive-issues-reflections-for-charities/

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