{"id":43409,"date":"2025-04-23T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/43409\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:55:12","slug":"charity-commission-legal-ruling-leaves-ni-public-unable-to-check-if-someone-has-been-barred-from-acting-as-trustee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/43409\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Commission: Legal ruling leaves NI public unable to check if someone has been barred from acting as trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">More than 7,000  decisions affected after commission failed in its appeal<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"In 2020, the High Court turned down the Charity Commission's appeal of the original decision\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/-85c5-0210609a3fe2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">In 2020, the High Court turned down the Charity Commission&#8217;s appeal of the original decision<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The fallout from a legal ruling almost five years ago has left Northern Ireland as the only region of the UK where the public are unable to check whether someone has been previously barred from acting as a charity trustee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A register of removed trustees is kept on both the Charity Commission for England and Wales and the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 7,000 decisions affected after commission failed in its appeal In 2020, the High Court turned down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[21747,1300,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-43409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-department-for-communities","9":"tag-liam-tunney","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114386444263381819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}