Lawyers question how tribunal will be of help to small charities

By Paul Jump, Third Sector, 5 March 2008

Small charities are unlikely to be able to use the Charity Tribunal unless specific mechanisms are brought in to help them, according to a charity lawyer.

Tim Waldron, head of the charity and community team at law firm Coffin Mew, said there should be a provision for small charities with similar grievances to get together to bring a form of 'class action', like the system developed in the US and currently emerging in the English judicial...

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