Interesting news story in the media yesterday concerning the recent ruling in the High Court. It concerns the case of animal lover Candia Midworth who left her fortune to several different animal charities.
As time has passed some of the charities have ceased to exist.
Cue much unseemly scrapping between the charities concerned for their share of the money.
However according to the judge ‘the gift could only fail if its charitable purposes also no longer existed or were incapable of implementation.’
The intention behind the gift is what counts. Not the status, size, or objective of the charity itself. This has implications in the Woodcot case.
By this measure Miss Jennings original intention is sacrosanct. Woodcot House must be used as a residential home for old people.
British Camelids v Others (or similar). Alpacas/ Candida Midworth Estate.
‘Judge Master Katherine McQuail ruled (8th September) that the will should be interpreted as funding "charitable purposes" rather than specific legal entities that may change over time.’
‘Focus on purpose not entities, says judge’.
‘The judge ruled that the money should support the ongoing "charitable purposes" for which Midworth intended the gifts, even if the specific charities she named in her 1994 will no longer exist in their original form.’
Read it for yourselves here…..
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