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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on the Draft Charities Bill
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780104005323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraft Charities Bill : Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on the Draft Charities Bill
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780104005330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraft Charities Bill : Vol. 3: Written Evidence
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2005-10-24
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780104007471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Joint Committee on Human Rights examines every Bill in respect of Convention rights and other international human rights instruments to which the UK is a signatory. This report covers the: Charities Bill; Consumer Credit Bill; Criminal Defence Service Bill; Identity Cards Bill; Racial and Religious Hatred Bill; Road Safety Bill; National Lottery Bill; Crossrail Bill.
Author: Robert Meakin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-11-27
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 052151603X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Meakin explores how the concept of 'charitable status' has changed following the introduction of the Charities Act 2006.
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780215022806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnual report For 2004 : First report of session 2004-05, report, together with appendices and formal Minutes
Author: Mary Synge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1509901531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the 'public benefit requirement', which provides that a charity's purposes must be for the public benefit. This requirement was given statutory force by the Charities Act 2006, which also provided that 'public benefit' is to be construed in accordance with existing case law and not presumed. The author examines guidance published by the Charity Commission in 2008 and 2013 and measures its accuracy against principles extrapolated from case law, with a focus on fee-charging charities, and independent schools in particular. She also considers the implementation of the Charity Commission's public benefit assessments of independent schools during 2008–10. The book offers a comparative study of the law relating to public benefit in Scotland and presents an analysis of the decision of the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery) in proceedings brought by the Independent Schools Council and Attorney General in 2011. It also considers subsequent reviews of the 2006 Act by Lord Hodgson and the Public Administration Select Committee and the Government's response to those reviews in September 2013. The fact that the law automatically bestows certain privileges on charities, including tax exemptions, means that the charitable status of fee-paying schools has proved particularly contentious and was described by Lord Campbell-Savours as making 'an absolute nonsense' of charity law. Here, the author asks whether the public benefit requirement, as enacted and interpreted, has succeeded in bringing any sense to our law of charity in recent years.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Committee on the Draft Charities Bill
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780104005316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe focus of this report is on the voluntary or not-for-profit organisations which are charities, and other organisations with charitable, philanthropic and benevolent purposes, many of which raise funds from the public including campaign groups. The Draft Bill aims to modernize charity law, allowing many campaigning and social justice groups to attain charitable status. In England and Wales 188,739 charities are registered with the Charity Commission, with a total income of £32 billion raised by the major charities. There are 471 charities, 0.29 per cent of those registered, which represent 45 per cent of the total income, two-thirds of charities actually have an income of £10,000 or less. The Joint Committee sets out 54 recommendations and conclusions, among them are: that the Bill should include a definition of religion; that there should be an additional charitable purpose of promoting religion, racial harmony and advancement of culture; that an account should be taken of the loss of assets to a charity, if it loses charitable status; that an independent review should look at the burden of regulation that charities face; that the Charity Commission should inform the charities the reason for any investigation and that compensation and costs can be awarded against the Commission.
Author: Myles McGregor-Lowndes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1849807973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years the pressure for charity law reform has swept across the common law jurisdictions with differing results. Modernising Charity Law examines how the UK jurisdictions have enacted significant statutory reforms after many years of debate, whilst the federations of Canada and Australia seem merely to have intentions of reform. New Zealand and Singapore have begun their own reform journeys. This highly insightful book brings together perspectives from academics,regulators and practitioners from across the common law jurisdictions. The expert contributors consider the array of reforms to charity law and assess their relative successes. Particular attention is given to the controversial issues of expanded heads of charity, public benefit, religion, competition with business, government participation and regulation. The book concludes by challenging the very notion of charity as a foundation for societies which, faced by an array of global threats and the rising tide of human rights, must now also embrace the expanding notions of social capital, social entrepreneurism and civil society This original and highly topical work will be a valuable resource for academics, regulators and legal practitioners as well as advanced and postgraduate students in law and public policy. Specialists in charity law, comparative law, and law and public policy should also not be without this important book.
Author: Brian Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 745
ISBN-13: 0198767730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCases & Materials on Constitutional & Administrative Law provides students with a comprehensive selection of legal resources to accompany their studies. Extracts from leading cases, academic works, and political documents are drawn together with incisive author commentary and thought-provoking questions to highlight the historical debates and ongoing development of the subject. The authors take a critical look at the doctrines of constitutional law and the principles of administrative law, showing how the constitution operates in relation to Parliament, the Executive, and the citizen. Online Resource Centre This book is supported by an Online Resource Centre providing a wide range of extra resources to further support students in their studies, including: - Updates in constitutional and administrative law - An extensive range of web links - An interactive timeline of significant public law events throughout history - 'Oxford News Now'- a live feed on topical public law issues, sourced from news websites such as the BBC and Guardian
Author: Alexander Horne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-06-02
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1509906444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays by leading academics, lawyers, parliamentarians and parliamentary officials provides a critical assessment of the UK Parliament's two main constitutional roles-as a legislature and as the preeminent institution for calling government to account. Both functions are undergoing change and facing new challenges. Part 1 (Legislation) includes chapters on Parliament's emerging responsibilities for pre-legislative scrutiny of government Bills and for evaluating proposed legislation against explicit constitutional standards. The impact on legislation of the European Union and the growing influence of the House of Lords are also examined. Part 2 (Accountability) investigates how Parliament operates to scrutinise areas of executive action previously often shielded from effective parliamentary oversight, including national security, war-making powers and administrative justice. There are also chapters on parliamentary reform, including analysis of the House of Commons 'Wright reforms', parliamentary sovereignty, privilege and the European Convention on Human Rights, Euroscepticism, and parliamentary sovereignty and the regulation of lobbyists. The book will be of interest to anyone who is curious about the work of Parliament and is aimed at legal academics, practitioners and political scientists.
