Legal challenge to public benefit decision

By Emilie Filou, Third Sector Online, 14 December 2007

A landmark Charity Commission decision about public benefit and fee-charging charities has caused consternation among charity lawyers and looks likely to end up in the High Court.

The commission decided last month that a private health care organisation in Salisbury could not be registered as a charity because people on low incomes would not be able to afford its services. One of the public benefit criteria the commission is proposing for fee-charging charities under the requirements of...

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