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Tom Murdoch
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.
Career
Trained at Stone King LLP; qualified 2010; partner at Stone King LLP 2005.
Education
St Bartholomew’s School, Newbury; York University; City University.