Charity Commission ordered to review grossly mishandled case
- Trinity
- Jun 30, 2018
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 1, 2018
27 Mar 18
Not long ago, a High Court ordered the Charity Commission to review a charity proceedings application.
The reason? It had been grossly mishandled by one of their case managers.
The case manager, apparently, confused two documents:
one, consisting of 756 pages;
the other, being 33 pages.
Easily done, when you look at them!
The Commission made a decision based on the 33 page document.
[for clarity - that’s the one on the right]
This document wasn’t relevant to the application. As a result the Commission, being thoroughly confused by it, refused to allow the proceedings.
When the Commission’s mistake was uncovered, the Commission wrote to the High Court and the case applicant to apologise. No, we’re jesting - they didn’t do that. It’s hardly ever known for the Commission to apologize - and if they ever do, the person who receives the apology is forbidden to reveal that fact to anyone.
What the Charity Commission actually did was this.
They asked the claimant to withdraw his High Court application. As a Plan B, in case he didn’t do so… the Commission asked the Judge to refuse his High Court application.
Both the Commission’s requests were declined and the application went ahead.
On this particular occasion, justice - rather than the Charity Commission - has prevailed.
Quote by the case applicant, Onkar Thandi:
“The Charity Commission has failed to act in accordance with section 15 of the Charities Act 2011… which proves that it is not an effective regulator…
Personally, I have no respect for the Commission, and I doubt that it will take this press release seriously”.
Trinity
Commentaires