The High Court handed down judgment in Sarah Butler-Sloss and Others v The Charity Commission and HM Attorney General [2022] EWHC 974 (Ch) on 29 April 2022. Maxim Cardew appeared with Edward Cumming QC for Sarah Butler-Sloss, Mark Sainsbury, and the other successful Claimants (as trustees of the Ashden Trust and the Mark Leonard...
The Official Receiver applied for the making of disqualification orders under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 against all of the directors who had been in office at or shortly before the charity’s collapse, together with its Chief Executive Officer, Camila Batmanghelidjh, who was alleged to have been a de...
Summary The Supreme Court has today delivered a landmark judgment on issues of equity and charity law. In Cooper v Lehtïmaki; Re The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (UK) [2020] UKSC 33, the Supreme Court held that the members of a charitable company stood in a fiduciary relationship vis-à-vis the...
Summary 12 December 2019 wasn’t merely a momentous day for the nation politically, it also saw the High Court hand down judgment on one of the year’s most interesting charity cases. In Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & others v Derby City Council & others [2019] EWHC 3436 (Ch), a group of NHS...