Charitable trusts are popular with examiners. The aim of this lecture is to analyse the subject in a comprehensive manner and highlight the following issues:

• the registration requirement;
• roles of the charitable trustees, Attorney General, Charity Commission;
• privileges enjoyed by charities such as certainty of objects, the perpetuity principle, fiscal advantages and the cy-pres rule;
• the public benefit test;
• commentary on each of 13 charitable purposes;
• political purposes;
• Equality Act 2010;
• activities performed outside the UK;
• cy-pres principle including ss 62-66 of the Charities Act 2011

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes (approx)

Lecturer: Mohamed Ramjohn

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