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Landmark Cases in Charity Law

Rebecca Fry, John Picton (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
480 Seiten
2026
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
9781509982868 (ISBN)
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Part of the iconic Landmark Cases series, this book is the first collection to bring together original research and analysis by leading scholars, judges and practitioners on the most significant cases in charity law.

It focussing exclusively on the judicial development of charity law, tracking the emergence of charity law as a distinct field of scholarship and practice and draws on the perspectives of a diverse range of expert writer.

The collection places the most significant cases in the field in their historical context, explains their contemporary importance, and considers their future relevance.

The carefully curated selection of cases come from England and Wales since the legal concept of charity in many common law jurisdictions is founded on the English case law. These cases are analysed by contributors from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Singapore, as well as from the UK, shedding new light on the rich diversity of and the defining principles in charity law across the common law world.

Rebecca Fry is the Head Judicial Assistant at the UK Supreme Court, UK. John Picton is Reader in Property and Trusts at the University of Manchester, UK.

1. Foreword, Lady Arden, Justice (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (retired), UK)

2. Introduction, Rebecca Fry (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, UK) and John Picton (University of Manchester, UK)

3. Jones v Williams (1767) Amb 651; (1767) 27 ER 422, Jonathan Garton (University of Warwick, UK)

4. Attorney General v Earl of Craven (1856) 21 Beav 392, Charles Mitchell (University College London, UK)

5. Special Commissioners for Income Tax v Pemsel [1891] AC 351), Iain Murray (University of Western Australia)

6. Re Wilson [1913] 1 Ch 314, John Picton (University of Manchester, UK)

7. Gilmour v Coats [1949] AC 426, Kathryn Chan (University of Victoria, Canada)

8. Oppenheim v Tobacco Securities Trust Co Ltd [1951] AC 297, Lara McMurtry (University of Sussex, UK)

9. Inland Revenue Commissioners v Baddeley [1955] AC 572, Lord Justice Newey (Court of Appeal of England and Wales, UK)

10. In Re Resch’s Will Trusts [1969] 1 AC 514, Lord Sales (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, UK)

11. Re Snowden [1970] Ch 700, Jonathan Fowles, (Serle Court, UK)

12. Liverpool and District Hospital for Diseases of the Heart v Attorney General [1981] Ch 193, Lord Briggs (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, UK)

13. McGovern v Attorney General [1982] Ch 321, Jane Calderwood Norton (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

14. Harries v Church Commissioners for England [1992] 1 WLR 1241, Rebecca Fry (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, UK)

15. R (Independent Schools Council) v Charity Commission for England and Wales; Attorney General v Charity Commission for England and Wales and another [2012] Ch 214, Robert Pearce KC (Radcliffe Chambers, UK)

16. Lehtimäki and others v Cooper [2020] UKSC 33, Yip Man and Alvin See (Singapore Management University)

17. R (Z and another) v Hackney London Borough Council and another [2020] UKSC 40, Jennifer Sigafoos (University of Liverpool, UK)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.8.2026
Reihe/Serie Landmark Cases
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Recht / Steuern Arbeits- / Sozialrecht Sozialrecht
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
Recht / Steuern Wirtschaftsrecht Gesellschaftsrecht
ISBN-13 9781509982868 / 9781509982868
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