The requirement of public benefit in the law relating to charitable trusts

Abstract

The object of this Thesis is to submit recommendations for the reform of one aspect of the law of charitable trusts, namely, the requirement that in order to be charitable a trust must be for the public benefit. My research was provoked by the complex and unsatisfactory state of the present law. I hope that the nature of the reform which I have suggested will be accepted as a suitable method by which the law can be changed. The views expressed are exclusively my own, except where otherwise indicated. The responsibility for any matter which is inaccurately recorded is mine also. The law is stated as at 2nd July 1970.