Charities’ Annual Return 2018

The Charity Commission for England & Wales has announced that the 2018 Annual Return Service is now open for submissions. Registered charities that must make a return can do so here. The Commission published the questions for the 2018 Annual Return earlier in...

Charity Commission Annual Return 2018

The Charity Commission for England and Wales has published an updated list of the questions to be included in the 2018 Annual Return for registered charities. The trustees of charities excepted from registration with the Commission – which includes a...

Automatic disqualification of charity trustees

The new rules on the automatic disqualification of trustees and senior managers in England and Wales come into operation today, 1 August. S.9 of the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016 extended automatic disqualification of charity trustees to more...
New Trustees for 2018

New Trustees for 2018

At the ELS committee meeting on 5 June 2018, we welcomed four new trustees, recently elected or co-opted to the committee: Luke Tatam (standing back left in the photograph), Ben Harrison (back right), Ruth Arlow (front left), and Paul Benfield (front right). We...
Ecclesiastical Law Society Sponsors Inter-Inn Moot Competition

Ecclesiastical Law Society Sponsors Inter-Inn Moot Competition

For the fourth successive year, the Ecclesiastical Law Society sponsored the Inter-Inn Mooting competition which concluded with the final on 3 July 2018. Hosted by Lincoln’s Inn, with excellent organisation by Clare Shepherd and Charlie Taylor, the finalists were...