Hanchett-Stamford v Attorney General and another (Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd intervening) – WLR Daily

Posted March 6th, 2008 in bona vacantia, law reports, unincorporated associations by sally

Hanchett-Stamford v Attorney General and another (Barclays Bank Trust Co Ltd intervening) [2008] EWHC 330 (Ch); WLR (D) 73

“The assets of an unincorporated association, which was not a charity and which had ceased to exist due to the fall in its membership to below two, did not pass to the Crown as bona vacantia but vested in the sole surviving member of the association.”

WLR Daily, 5th March 2008

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