1st Edition

Charity Law Exploring the Concept of Public Benefit

306 Pages

by Routledge

306 Pages

by Routledge

306 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

This book investigates and critically evaluates the concept of public benefit within charity law in the common law world. In the course of the study the book: provides a rich account of how the concept of public benefit has developed over time in charity law jurisprudence; deepens understanding of the aspects of public benefit that remain poorly understood even today; and suggests ways in... Read more

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

[Introduction]

Introduction

Daniel Halliday and Matthew Harding

[Chapter 1]

What Does it Mean to ‘Act Charitably’? Revisiting the Purposes and Activities Distinction in Charity Law

Adam Parachin

[Chapter 1 Comment]
Purposes, Activities and the Continued Importance of Charity Modes of Action

Ian Murray

[Chapter 2]

Too Private to Be Charitable: Difficulties in Drawing the Line in Charity Law

Debra Morris

[Chapter 2 Comment]

Too Private to Be Charitable: Commentary on Debra Morris’s Chapter

Jennifer Batrouney AM QC

[Chapter 3]

Public Benefit and Charitable Class

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

[Chapter 3 Comment]

Comment on Public Benefit and Charitable Class

Matthew Harding

[Chapter 4]

Public Benefit and Public Policy: Keeping up with Discrimination?

Myles McGregor-Lowndes

[Chapter 4 Comment]

Commentary on Public Benefit and Public Policy: Keeping up with Discrimination?

Matthew Turnour and Elizabeth Shalders

[Chapter 5]

A No-Benefit Benefit Test: When, If Ever, Should Benefit Be Presumed or Assumed in Charity Law?

Mary Synge

[Chapter 5 Comment]

A No-Benefit Benefit Test: Comment

Pauline Ridge

[Chapter 6]

Weighing Benefits and Detriments in the Law of Charities

Jane Calderwood Norton

[Chapter 6 Comment]

Some Further Reflections on Incommensurability, Public Benefit, and Autonomy: Commentary on Weighing Benefits and Detriments in the Law of Charities

Daniel Halliday

[Chapter 7]

Public Reason, Public Benefit, and ‘Political’ Charities

Patrick Emerton

[Chapter 7 Comment]

Comment on Public Reason, Public Benefit, and ‘Political’ Charities

Jennifer L Beard

[Chapter 8]

Issues and Problems with the Application of the Public Benefit Test in New Zealand Law

Sue Barker

[Chapter 8 Comment]

Comment: Purpose and Public Benefit