Mary Synge; Hubert Picarda Public Benefit sku-407868567

Mary Synge; Hubert Picarda's The 'New' Public Benefit Requirement: Making Sense of Charity Law? (sku-407868567) is a paperback in Educational Law & Legislation Books. It examines the rule that a charity's purposes must benefit the public. The Charities Act 2006 gave the rule statutory force and required public benefit to be construed under existing case law rather than presumed.

The book compares Charity Commission guidance from 2008 and 2013 with case law, focusing on fee-charging charities and independent schools. It discusses the Commission's 2008-10 assessments of independent schools, public benefit law in Scotland and the 2011 Upper Tribunal proceedings brought by the Independent Schools Council and Attorney General.

It also covers Lord Hodgson's and the Public Administration Select Committee's reviews of the 2006 Act and the Government's September 2013 response. Given charities' privileges, including tax exemptions, it asks whether the requirement has brought clarity to the contentious charitable status of fee-paying schools, which Lord Campbell-Savours described as making 'an absolute nonsense' of charity law.