Charities & Discrimination: Is Charity Law Always a Better Solution than Public Policy?

Murray Ian ()
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Murray Ian: Law School, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2022, vol. 13, issue 2, 141-159

Abstract: Discrimination by charities raises questions about the appropriate extent of equality regulation and has implications for government outsourcing through charities and for the provision of tax concessions. Professor Parachin has recently provided a justification for denying the application of public equality norms to charities through the public policy test of charity law. This paper builds on that work by considering whether liberal societies might, however, have good grounds to apply public equality norms to charities in circumstances such as the provision of outsourced government services, state enforcement of egoistic giving, or where doing so is a proportionate means to prevent harm.

Keywords: discrimination; public policy; charities; charity law; equality; civil rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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