The Attorney General for Northern Ireland and the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland will today go the Court of Appeal in a dispute over who can take an appeal to the Charity Tribunal for Northern Ireland.
The High Court in the province last year ruled that a single trustee, rather than a trustee body, should be able to appeal at the Charity Tribunal against a decision of the regulator to open an inquiry, after a case brought by the Attorney General. The Commission has now appealed that decision.
The case is part of a wider dispute over a Commission investigation into the Disable Police Officers Association of Northern Ireland, a charity which was first investigated in 2014, where the Commission suspended two trustees and the chief executive. The Attorney General’s case was brought on behalf of William Allen, who resigned as a trustee after being suspended during the Commission investigation.
The Attorney General is also bringing a separate case against the Charity Commission over its decision to remove the other suspended trustee, Robert Crawford.
Crawford had appealed the decision to remove him but had his appeal rejected by the Charity Tribunal last year.
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