UK legal advice - company liability, philanthropic gift of a building & building contract operation

[thismaz]

Please can anybody help me with some UK legal advice on private company liability and on the philanthropic gift of a building? Plus, I would really appreciate advice on the operation of a building renovation contract

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[goose_entity]

just to throw a spanner in the works - in issues like this there is really no such thing as "UK Law". Scottish law is different. Your Google searches may bear more fruit if you narrow it down by "English" or "Scottish" (Welsh law was completely subsumed into English law in around 1530-something).

[thismaz]

there is really no such thing as "UK Law".
*g* Very true. I put UK in the title so people didn't give me answers about American laws and the country specific tags in the community are all UK.
My goggle searches were all limited to UK sites, but they were, as you say, about English law.

[goose_entity]

the UK is way more complicated than it should be. If Scotland goes independent it'll get a lot simpler ;)

[occasionalhope]

The trust deed would convey the property to the trustees (who would be named in the deed). I'll see if I can get the wording of a specific similar deed for you (likely to be a couple of days).

Re the accounts: can your man contact the auditor? Registered charities are required to submit annual statements of accounts, properly audited, to the Charity Commission annually. They don't all do it on time in practice, but they're supposed to.

[thismaz]

The trust deed would convey the property to the trustees (who would be named in the deed)
Right, okay, so I need to change the description of them to something like - the body of the text named the membership of the initial Board of Trustees?

I'll see if I can get the wording of a specific similar deed for you (likely to be a couple of days).
Wow, that would be fantastic. Thank you very much.

can your man contact the auditor?
The auditor. Of course. I hadn't thought of that. I don't think it is that desperate at that point in the story, but they should at least be mentioned as a possibility. Thank you very much indeed.

Thank you so much for replying. I had pretty much given up on this post and was hoping that the silence was a signal that what I had done was okay enough.

[occasionalhope]

Hope I haven't kept you waiting too long

[thismaz]

I am more grateful than I can say. Thank you so much for taking so much trouble.

Apart from the wording, which I will certainly adapt and use, I knew about the no punctuation thing and had based the appearance on my memory of the original deeds of my own house, but your description is so much better, so thank you for that too.

It would be called an indenture, not a deed? *goes to google* Ah, okay, I see. And since he has only read this and has no legal training, our hero will refer to it later as 'the indenture' or maybe as 'the contract' (since he is not stupid).

Thank you for all your help. I feel much more confident about writing this bit of the story now.

[occasionalhope]

No problem.

He's fine to call it the deed, or the trust deed, or the conveyance. Not the contract, because it isn't one, and indenture is really only a technical term for any formal document between more than one party (the word comes from the fact that early indentures (from the middle ages) were documents of which more than one identical copy was made, originally written on the same bit of parchment and then cut into two or three bits with a wavy line, so you could match them up later to prove the authenticity - but that's long since gone by the way by the date of this deed.)

[thismaz]

our hero will refer to it later as ... 'the contract' (since he is not stupid).
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He's fine to call it the deed, or the trust deed, or the conveyance. Not the contract, because it isn't one

*laughs* I hold that it would not be his fault, if he named it wrongly *g*

Thank you again. I am very grateful to you for the trouble you've taken.