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Clark Foundation for Legal Education

SC018520Registered charity from 05 November 1991
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Notes:
In carrying into effect the purposes of the Foundation, the Trustees shall be entitled to do or to make arrangements for the doing through others of all or any of the following things:- (a) to award grants or scholarships to suitable persons to undertake courses of study in Scots Law or comparative legal systems or the law of the European Community or foreign languages or business management or undertake research into one or more aspects of Scots Law and/or its relationship with other legal systems or attend international student competitions and conferences; (b) to commission and promote or sponsor the publication of books, journals, periodicals, pamphlets and magazines (whether in print or electronic form), audio and visual recordings and presentations, podcasts and other methods for the recording, dissemination and communication of information including the compilation of legal databases and information retrieval systems; (c) to hold, sponsor or promote the holding of conferences, seminars, lectures, webinars, mock trials, role playing for events promoting legal education and practical demonstrations and to award grants to or defray the expenses of suitably qualified persons or organisations to assist them in attending, or participating in, holding or promoting such events; (d) to provide facilities and equipment (including computers and other information technology hardware, software and peripheral equipment) for study and research including grants for the establishment and maintenance of libraries and study centres; (e) to endow in whole or in part or provide grants for the maintenance of chairs or lectureships of law at Universities or other institutions of higher education in Scotland; (f) to institute and endow prizes and awards for scholarship and academic achievement; and (g) generally to undertake or to promote such activities as shall further the purposes of the Foundation.-
Charity Information:
Address Lindsays
Caledonian Exchange
19a Canning Street
Edinburgh
Postcode EH3 8HE
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
The purpose of the Foundation is (1) to promote or advance the legal or the professional or the business education or training of (a) persons practising law or involved (or intending to practise law or be so involved) in the administration of law in Scotland or elsewhere in the United Kingdom whether as solicitors or advocates or in any other capacity and (b) persons studying or teaching law at universities or other institutions of higher education based in Scotland or anywhere else in the world and (2) to promote good citizenship and civic responsibility and for that purpose to advance the active understanding of the law by the general public (including primary and secondary students at schools and other learning institutions in Scotland) .continued
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Purpose of the Foundation is (!) to promote or advance the legal or the professional or the business education or training of ( a) persons practising law or involved (or intending to practice law or be so involved) in the administration of law in Scotland or elsewhere in the UK whether as solicitors or advocates or in any other capacity and (b) persons studying or teaching law at universities or other institutions of higher education based in Scotland or anywhere else in the world and (2) to promote good citizenship and civic responsibility and for that purpose to advance the active understanding of the law by the general public ( including primary & secondary students at school and other learning institutions in Scotland)
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Constitutional Form Date: 05 Nov 1991
Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of citizenship or community development"
Beneficiaries: "Other defined groups"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022 £86,368 £213,489 23 Jun 2022
31 Mar 2023 £102,348 £129,272 20 Dec 2023
31 Mar 2024 £87,425 £75,668 31 Dec 2024
31 Mar 2025 £85,107 £127,938 30 Dec 2025 Download
31 Mar 2026 No
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green   . If an annual return is late, the box is red   .
Income and Expenditure:
Charity Trustees:
First Name Last Name
The Right Honourable Lord Ericht (Andrew Fleming Stewart
Lucy Thornton
Christopher William Nicholson WS
Professor Roderick Ruthven Mackenzie Paisley
Giles Christie Reid
Kirsty Jane Hood
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