Canterbury Development Corporation v Charities Commission - [2010] 2 NZLR 707

Charities — Charitable purpose — Community benefit — Meeting identified need — Whether community development purpose community benefit if relevant community not disadvantaged — Public benefit — Whether promoting individual businesses benefited significant section of public — Whether assisting unemployed charitable purpose under relief of poverty — Whether promoting businesses assisted unemployed — Educational purposes — Public benefit — Whether education service provided to broad section of public — Whether imperfect trust provisions applied only to charitable trusts — Whether court should sever non-charitable purposes — Charities Act 2005, s 5(1).