Maitland Chambers is home to experienced advocates advising charities, trustees and regulators across a broad range of governance, regulatory and contentious matters. Andrew Westwood KC represented supermodel Naomi Campbell in an appeal against the Charity Commission’s order disqualifying her from being a charity trustee. With ‘extensive knowledge and experience across charity law issues’, Matthew Smith KC successfully acted for a local community in efforts to remove and appoint trustees of a charity owning a city farm in North London. Maxim Cardew, who has been praised for having a ‘first-rate mind’, acted for six of the defendants in Dasji v Bhudia and others, a High Court case concerning a dispute between the charity trustees of the Shree Swaminarayan Temple, a Hindu place of worship in Stanmore.
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