Nicholas Macklam

Profile: Charities

Nick has experience of advising on a range of matters concerning charities.

Representative instructions include:

• Advising a charity on its entitlement to relief from business rates pursuant to section 43 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988
• Advising a charity on the nature of the duties owed by volunteers who collected donations on its behalf and the nature of “charity proceedings” requiring Charity Commission authorisation
• Settling Particulars of Claim on behalf of a charity in respect of alleged misuse / misappropriation of a charity’s assets

Nick also has experience of considering whether a charity had complied with the terms of a Tomlin Order relating to the appointment of its office-holders. During pupillage he shadowed Robert Pearce QC and Joshua Winfield at the hearing of Marwaha v Singh [2013] EWCA Civ 1878 in the Court of Appeal.