UK law schools, including the College of Law, will be forced to justify their charitable status under a major shake-up of charity law unveiled last week.
Proposals from the Cabinet Office, the prime minister’s strategy unit, would require the schools to prove that they provide significant benefits to the wider community to retain their charitable status.
All English and Welsh law schools have charitable status, with the exception of BPP, which is set up as a public limited company.
Most law schools, such as Nottingham Law School, are set up as subsidiaries of higher education authorities and must hand over their profits to their university parent. The College of Law, however, is both independent and set up as a charity in its own right.
