What is charitable?

Simrun Garcha reports on the charitable status and disposal of assets of a now defunct religious sect. 


The High Court’s recent decision in Buckley v Barlow [2016] explored whether the assets of a religious organisation that had ceased to function by the middle of the 20th century should be applied in accordance with a cypres scheme for general charitable purposes or be treated as bona vacantia
 

 
 
 

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