Charities

Charities

Members of Wilberforce Chambers have deep and wide-ranging expertise and experience, both in advisory work and litigation, in respect of matters concerning charities.

This includes members being instructed on pure charity matters, as well as cases involving charities which give rise to issues within Chambers’ related areas of expertise including, amongst others, trusts and tax. It also includes experience of acting for Attorneys General in charity matters (UK and Cayman Islands).

The types of cases in which members are instructed in this area are myriad. Examples include:

• Acting in litigation involving allegations of financial and governance breaches in respect of major international religious charity
• Acting in litigation concerning tax treatment of charitable education structures
• Acting in litigation involving aspects of management of charitable trust with past involvement in large scale tax avoidance scheme
• Advising major grant-making charity on conflicts of interest with family of the founder
• Advising major museum on ability to return artifacts which were subject to a moral claim by a third party
• Advising interested parties on scope of major charity’s objects