Claris D’cruz

I qualified as a barrister before becoming a charity lawyer. I worked 'at the coalface' as an in-house legal adviser for a registered charity and then as a Charity Commission lawyer, before going into private practice. I have 25 years’ experience of advising charities, of all sizes on a wide range of issues such as setting up and registering new charities, mergers, and incorporations, as well as dealing with the Charity Commission to regularise unauthorised trustee remuneration and regarding defective trustee appointments. I have over 15 years’ voluntary sector leadership experience and over 20 years' experience of delivering CPD training on charity law and practice for lawyers, accountants and other professionals, charity staff and trustees. The CPD training I deliver covers both technical and practical issues.