Equity unit 5 - Charitable Trusts

Re Coulthurst

Poverty does not mean destitution

National Anti-Vivisection Society v IRC

Where an organisation’s purpose is to further political or legal change, it cannot be a charity.

Oppenheim v Tobacco Securities Trust

Trust must be in the public interest, cannot only benefit relatives or employees, it has to be broader than that.

Re South Place Ethical Society

Religion required faith in a god and worship of that god

Neville v Madden

If the trust is religious, it also has to be for the public benefit

Re Compton

An educational charitable trust must benefit a sufficiently large group - it cannot have a personal nexus - in this case beneficiaries descended from common ancestor.