The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[2003] Ch 283
Chancery Division
Bayoumi v Women's Total Abstinence Union Ltd and another
[2003] EWHC 212 (Ch)
2002 Dec 9,
10;
2003 Jan 21
2003 Jan 21
Simon Berry QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge
Charity
— Sale of trust property
— Statutory requirements
— Charity contracting to sell property
— Non-compliance with statutory requirement to obtain survey before contract
— Purchaser seeking specific performance of contract of sale
— Statute validating “disposition” of land to purchaser in good faith
— Whether uneffected contract “disposition” of land
— Whether contract void
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Charities Act 1993 (c 10), s. 37(4)