Oonagh B. Breen is a Professor of Law at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin where she teaches and researches on NGO Law, Governance, and Social Change. Oonagh has worked with the nonprofit sector, charity regulators and policymakers in a number of jurisdictions (including Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada) and was a member of the Charity Regulator’s Consultative Panel on Governance in 2018. Philip Smith is a Partner in Arthur Cox Solicitors where he is head of the Charity and Pension Law Groups. Philip’s legal expertise is supplemented by his practical experience of the issues facing charity trustees both as a former director and chairman of Boardmatch Ireland and as a member of the working group which developed, and subsequently reviewed, the community and voluntary sector’s Governance Code. He advises on all issues affecting the management and governance of not-for-profit organisations with a particular focus on regulatory, governance, trust law, and fundraising issues.
...exemplary use of all the techniques that can be employed to create a convenient body of knowledge for those with differing understandings of the area. * Nonprofit Policy Forum * The authors of Law of Charities in Ireland have brought to their text not only their legal expertise but also practical experience, which is vital to a text of this sort, for the wide and varied readership it will undoubtedly attract. This detailed textbook will be of use to legal practitioners, but more so to all of those others engaged in charities, and it approaches the subject in a practical way. -- Ercus Stewart, The Law Library, The Four Courts, Dublin * Irish Jurist, Vol LXV * The arrival of this fantastic book will lead to an improved understanding of the charity law environment. In doing so it will provide guidance to charities and their advisers pending revisions to the legislative framework. It will also hopefully assist legislators and policy makers in their efforts to strengthen that framework. In the meantime, we will have the great benefit that this thoroughly well researched, comprehensive, authoritative and practical publication provides. -- Diarmaid O Corrbui CEO, Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups