Property Law - Charitable Trusts Flashcards
Why did G enact Section 4 and 17 CA 11 (two reasons)
To improve clarity and political objective of reassessing charitable status of fee-charging charities (e.g. private schools)
Catholic Care v Charity Commission general
Homosexual adoption
Why do courts and Commission look to the purposes and activities of charitable trusts?
Difference between purpose and activities can simply be one of degree
Section 4 and 17 CA 11
G wanted to settle common law presumption that relieving poverty and advancing education and religion were for the public benefit
What is a criticism of CA 06?
Overlap within section 3 may mean the objective of clarity is not reached
What case outlined what sections 3 and 4 CA2011 are actually asking?
ISC Case
What section of what Act enshrines the method of making analogy with existing charitable purposes?
Section 3(1)(m)(ii) CA 2011
How did the CC justify their departure from previous court decisions on charitable status?
Courts have done it as well
What case enforced that Ts can decide nature and extent of benefits to the public?
R (ISC) v Charity Commission
What two sections of what Act took the Pemsel heads of charity further than common law?
Section 3(1) CA 06 and section 3(2)(a)(ii) CA 06
National Anti-Vivisection Society v IRC on political purposes
Political purpose cannot be charitable as court can’t usurp the legislature and AG shouldn’t have to enforce it
What section of what act allows charities to restrict benefits to class defined by a ‘protected characteristic’?
Section 193(2) Equality Act 2010
What case shows a court accepting fiscal implications of charitable status, but in order to deny such status?
Amateur Youth Soccer v Canada Revenue
What two cases show courts getting around the exclusively charitable requirement?
Guild v IRC; Royal College of Surgeons v National Provincial Bank
Section 3(1) CA 06
Prevention of poverty recognised as charitable, not just relief
Dingle v Turner on significant section of community
Obiter agreement with MacDermott in Oppenheim
Section 3(1)(m)(ii) CA 2011
‘Reasonably be regarded as analogous to, or within the spirit of’ s.3(1) charitable purposes definition
What judge argued it should be a question of degree in all circumstances, NOT based on personal nexus test, when asking if there is a significant section of community?
Lord McDermott in Oppenheim.
Section 3(1)(h) CA 11
Advancement of human rights is charitable, so closer to seeing political campaigning as charitable
What section of what Act introduces a ‘wait and see’ rule for gifts from a charity to a non-charity or vice versa?
Section 3 Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 1964
Who argued Courts should look to conceptual ‘ideal’ of charity, not fiscal considerations
Parachin
What section of what Act disables the 6 year limitation period for private trusts in regard to charitable trusts?
S.2(3) Limitation Act 1980
Morice v Bishop on Statute of Charitable Uses 1601
Starting point for judicial examination of a charitable purpose trust
Purpose cannot be for public benefit if it does more harm than good
National Anti-Vivisection Society v IRC
Independent School Council Case on section 3 and 4 CA 2011
Section 3 is asking that the nature of the purpose itself must benefit the community, but section 4 is asking if those that benefit are sufficiently numerous to constitute a section of the public
what is an example of decision-making bodies deciding charitable status as a ‘pure’ question of law?
Courts determining charitable testamentary purpose
Ulturn UK v Charity Commission general
‘Street associations’
S.193(2) Equality Act 2010
Allows charities to restrict benefits to class defined by ‘protected characteristic’ if proportional or to prevent/compensate resultant disadvantages
What did National Anti-Vivisection say about significant section of community?
Purpose cannot be for public benefit if it does more harm than good
What wide powers does the Charity Commission have?
To inquire into charities, remove/replace corrupt officers and enforce obligations of Ts through the courts
In what year did the Commission decide rifle clubs were no longer charitable?
1993
What types of tax do charitable bodies not pay?
Income, corporation and capital gains tax on properly for solely charitable ends
Who said the difference between the purpose and the activity of a body is simply one of degree
Garton
Section 14 Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009
Power of charitable Ts to accumulate income for more than 21 years ceases to have effect, so that privilege of indefinite duration now only applies to endowment capital
what is a positive of the personal nexus test?
Conducive to legal certainty, unlike McDermott’s approach
Section 3(2)(a)(ii) CA 06
‘Religion’ includes no belief in a God
Section 2 Charities Act 2011
Purpose is legally charitable if in section 3 and satisfies public benefit in section 4
What is the 4-part classification of charitable objects?
(1) relief of indigent, (2) advancement of learning, (3) advancement of religion and (4) advancement of objects of general public utility
Dingle v Turner
Only Lord Cross admitted courts have regard to charitable fiscal privileges
What section of what Act states the advancement of human rights is charitable?
Section 3(1)(h) CA 11
Special Commissioners for Purposes of Income Tax v Pemsel’
‘Pemsel heads of charity’
What judge in what case admitted courts have regard to fiscal privileges in deciding charitable status?
Lord Cross in Dingle v Turner
What section of what Act gave that the power of charitable Ts to accumulate income for more than 21 years ceases to have effect?
Section 14 Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009
Guild v IRC general
‘Or some similar purpose in connection with sport’
What act used to invalidate gifts of land for charitable ends?
Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1736
What is the 4 part classification of charitable objects called?
‘Pemsel heads of charity’
From what jurisdiction is Aid/Watch v Federal Commission?
High Court of Australia
Ulturn UK v Charity Commission judgment
If trust property CAN be used for non-charitable purposes, it is a non-charitable trust