Charities and voluntary bodies need to restructure for a variety of reasons: this article discusses the 'how' but we must start with the 'why'.
Officeholder personal liability
The personal exposure of officeholders in association, club or trust deed structures will vbe familiar to practicitioners. A recent illustration of this is monir v Wood [2018] EWHC 3525. An unincorporated association's chairman devolved management of the entity's Twitter account to a third party, who libelled an outside. The latter chose to sue, alone, the chairman, who was found eprsonally liable for the vicarious defamation and suffered a judgement of £40,000.
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