Charities & Discrimination: Is Charity Law Always a Better Solution than Public Policy?

This approach is broadly consistent with assertions by other writers that charity law is concerned with altruism ([22], 322; [29], 88-108), albeit it acknowledges that charity law does not currently comprehensively incorporate a stranger benefit/equality requirement and seeks to develop charity law beyond its current rules to arrive at this result. Keywords: discrimination; public policy; charities; charity law; equality; civil rights EN discrimination public policy charities charity law equality civil rights 141 159 19 04/29/22 20220401 NES 220401 1 Introduction "Charity law", being the law of charitable purpose trusts and of charitable status, is not very effective in jurisdictions such as the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK at dealing with discrimination. Parachin appears to suggest this because he views charity law as a body of private law rules and considers that it would better maintain coherence in charity law, and private law more generally, for charity law to develop in accordance with its underlying principles than to draw on public norms inherent in human rights legislation and constitutional law ([49], 338). [Extracted from the article]