In Re Dominion Students’ Hall Trust: 1947

A trust deed imposed a ‘colour bar’.
Held: The court upheld a scheme which removed the bar. However, notionally there could be two complementary charities ‘one for white and one for coloured students’. These notional trusts were not being incompatible with charitable objects.

Judges:

Evershed J

Citations:

[1947] Ch 183

Cited by:

CitedGibbs v Harding and others ChD 12-Jan-2007
The testatrix left a will anticipating making another. The court was asked whether a clause leaving her estate to ‘be taken over by the Diocese of Westminster to hold in trust for the Black community of Hackney’ was valid.
Held: The gift was . .
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Charity, Discrimination

Updated: 04 May 2022; Ref: scu.247697