The decision has crucial implications for the charity sector and the volunteers needed to run it, Natasha Jackson, barrister, & Katharine Bailey, pupil, of 3 Hare Court, write in this week’s NLJ.
Former CEO Camila Batmanghelidjh founded the charity in 1996 to help children who were falling through the cracks in mainstream services, but it collapsed in 2015 after facing financial difficulties. The High Court found that Batmanghelidjh was not a director and none of the trustees were unfit to be directors.
Jackson & Bailey spell out the implications of this important case. They write the case ‘is particularly notable for the strongly-worded judicial observations on the requirement for fairness and balance towards defendants, and the stark recommendations issued to the Official Receiver on case presentation’.
