Position: Partner

Specialisation: Charity & Community

Julian is the charity & community team’s team leader and a member of the firm’s museums & galleries and tax groups. He specialises in advising charities and non-departmental public bodies. Typical areas of work covered for charities and their trustees include formations, mergers, governance, trading and investigations. He has also advised various NDPBs on public procurement issues.

He writes and lectures regularly on matters relevant to charities and NDPBs. He is the co-author of “The Charities Act 2006: A Practitioner’s Guide” published by Legalease Ltd and has replaced Judith Hill as consultant editor of Peter Luxton’s “The Law of Charities”, published by Oxford university Press.

He is a member of the Committee of the Charity Law Association and is a regular member of CLA Working Parties responding to the Charity Commission’s consultations, most recently on topics arising out of the Charities Act 2006.  He is also chair of its Standing Committee on Taxation, which responds to tax consultations of relevance to the voluntary sector.

Career

Trained at Farrer & Co; qualified in 1994; solicitor in charity & community team 1994-2000; became a partner in 2000.

Education

Charterhouse; Peterhouse, Cambridge

Memberships

EAPG’s Advisory Board; the Charity Law Association (CLA)

Julian.Smith@farrer.co.uk