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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3165: Charity Law
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Cases and decisions:
Aid/Watch Inc v Commissioner of Taxation [2010] HCA 42 (HCt Australia)
Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) v Charity Commission [2010] EWHC 520 (Ch)
Human Dignity Trust v Charity Commission (2014) FTT (Charity) No. CA/2013/0013
Re Greenpeace of New Zealand [2014] NZSC 105
Decision of the Charity Commission on an application for registration by the Temple of the Jedi Order, (December 2016)
Books and articles:
Chan, K - The Public-Private Nature of Charity Law (Hart Publishing, 2016)
Dunn, A – The Voluntary Sector, the State and the Law (Hart Publishing, 1998)
Harding, M – Charity Law and the Liberal State (CUP 2014)
McGregor-Lowndes, M and O’Halloran, K (eds) - Modernising Charity Law: recent developments and future directions (Edward Elgar Publishing. 2010)
McKenna, A – Applications to First-tier Tribunal (Charity) by Persons Affected (2012-13) 16 CL&PR 147
Parachin, A – Charity, politics and neutrality (2015-16) 18 CL&PR 23
Picarda, H – Thornton v Howe: A sound principle or a seminal case past its best buy date? (2013-14) 16 CL&PR 85
Synge, M – The ‘new’ public benefit requirement: making sense of charity law? (Hart Publishing, 2015)
Walton, C – McGovern v AG: constraints on judicial assessment of charitable benefit (2014) Conv 317