The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[2004] Ch 46
Court of Appeal
Bayoumi v Women's Total Abstinence Educational Union Ltd and another
[2003] EWCA Civ 1548
2003 Oct 9;
Nov 5
Nov 5
Chadwick, Buxton and Rix LJJ
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), ss. 36, 37(4)