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Stone King LLP
Lawyers
Tom Murdoch
Stone King LLP, London
- Phone020 7324 1750
- Email[email protected]
- Social
Work Department
Charity and social enterprise.
Position
Tom acts for a wide variety of charities and social enterprises on diverse legal issues including: novel charitable purposes, spin-offs from the state, structural re-organisations, including governance reviews, amendment of royal charters, trading issues, charity campaigning, charity appeals, mergers and charities specialising in health and social care.
Recent charity work includes:
acting for the Royal Society, the National Trust and English Heritage; first registration of new charitable purposes Wikimedia UK (the organisation underlying Wikipedia) and local Healthwatch (local authority public health responsibilities); closure of The Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund; assisting DEFRA with the establishment of the Canal and Riverside Trust, the successor organisation in England and Wales to the British Waterways Board; and participating in both the NCVO’s and the Charity Law Association’s reviews of the Charities Act 2006 and the potential recognition of public benefit journalism as a charitable purpose.Education
St Bartholomew’s School, Newbury; York University; City University.