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NLJ this week: Charitably minded, Goodband & the rules for trustees

27 September 2024
Issue: 8087 / Categories: Legal News , Charities
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When the public lose trust in a charity, the media fallout can be devastating

As Liz Brownsell, partner and head of charities at Birketts, writes in this week’s NLJ, ‘research shows that the public care most about how charities spend their funds, and this is borne out in the stories that tend to hit the headlines’.

Brownsell looks at the Charity Commission’s support and education of trustees, particularly regarding conflict of interest and personal benefit. Is it doing enough to prevent trustees falling foul of the rules? What is and isn’t allowed, and why isn’t there more clarity?

She covers in detail Goodband v Charity Commission, a case in which a trustee appealed her disqualification.

Issue: 8087 / Categories: Legal News , Charities
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Excello Law—five appointments

Excello Law—five appointments

Fee-share firm expands across key practice areas with senior appointments

Irwin Mitchell—Grace Morahan

Irwin Mitchell—Grace Morahan

International divorce team welcomes new hire

Switalskis—14 trainee solicitors

Switalskis—14 trainee solicitors

Firm welcomes largest training cohort in its history

NEWS
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
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