Legal Issues in Charity Mergers in England and Wales, 2000

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This study examined the legal problems charities encounter when they attempt to merge with another charity and the means used to deal with them. Using an extensive literature review and in-depth qualitative interviews, the research had four aims: firstly, to identify as far as possible a preliminary list of the legal issues in charity mergers; secondly, to use qualitative interview techniques to gather data on the practical experience of such mergers and the effects they had on participants; thirdly, to produce a guide to good legal practice, giving an illustration of both routine and unprecedented legal problem solving; finally, to contribute towards more informed policy making in the voluntary sector. Before the final guide to good legal practice was produced, research participants were invited to attend, or contribute to, a conference. This dealt with best practices in relation to the legal issues identified. The conference included both a plenary session and small discussion groups focus. The aim of the conference was to finalise which of the different approaches to legal issues was considered to be the best practice. A full research report and guide to good legal practice is available to accompany the dataset, and forms part of the user guide.

Main Topics:

The interviews covered charity law, legal conflict and resolution, organisational management, employment.

Purposive selection/case studies

snowball sampling was also used.

Face-to-face interview

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-4689-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=9b1060ed3f74897094597e17e217a7ee15c832950e0f503ee87261d7dfcb61f3
Provenance
Creator Warburton, J., University of Liverpool, School of Law, Charity Law Unit; Fitzgerald, R., National Centre for Social Research; Cartwright, A. L., University of Liverpool, School of Law, Charity Law Unit
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 2003
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
Rights Copyright D.J. Morris; <p>The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.</p><p>Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.</p>
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Representation
Resource Type Text; In-depth/semi-structured interviews
Discipline Social Sciences
Spatial Coverage England and Wales