follower of Martin Schongauer. This drawing was part of the bequest made by Mr Dodgson in favour of the British Museum which took effect in 1949. Since 1946 and 1949 respectively those drawings have been held by the Trustees as part of the collections of the British Museum. 3. On 30th September 1963 the British Museum Act 1963 came into force in the place of inter alia the 1753 Act. It provided for the Trustees to continue as a body corporate (s.1) and conferred on them power, subject to the restrictions imposed on them by virtue of any enactment (whether contained in that Act or not) to enter into contracts and other agreements, to acquire and hold land and other property, and to do all other things that appear to them necessary or expedient for the purposes of their functions (s.2). S.3(1)-(3) require the Trustees to keep the objects comprised in the collections at the places and in the manner there specified. S.3(4) provides: “Objects vested in the Trustees as part of the collections of the Museum shall not be disposed of by them otherwise than under section 5 or 9 of this Act [or section 6 of the Museums and Galleries Act 1992].” S.5 authorises the Trustees to dispose of duplicates, objects made after 1850 and objects unfit to be retained in the collections of the Museum. It also entitles the Trustees to destroy useless objects. S.9 of that Act and s.6 of Museums and Galleries Act 1992 entitle the Trustees to transfer objects comprised in the collections of the British Museum to the Trustees of any other of the specified national museums. 4. In 1970 Cross J determined that the Court or the Attorney-General may authorise: “a payment...out of charity funds which is motivated simply and solely by the belief of the trustees or other persons administering the funds that the charity is under a moral obligation to make the payment”, see Re:Snowden [1970] Ch.700, 709. 5. In 2002 the Trustees considered a claim advanced by The Commission for Looted Art in Europe (“CLAE”) on behalf of the heirs of the late Dr Feldmann that each of the four drawings had been the property of Dr Feldmann in Brno, Czechoslovakia and had been stolen from him on 15th March 1939 by the Gestapo. The claim was and is for restitution not compensation alone. At a meeting of the Trustees held on 27th July 2002 it was agreed that: “6.4.3 Having regard to the cogency of the evidence adduced within the context of what were acknowledged to be the exceptional atrocities committed during the 1933-1945 era, the claimants request for the return of these drawings ought to be acceded to if and to the extent permissible by law. 6.4.4 With the agreement of the claimants and [Department for Culture, Media and Sport], this case should be referred to the Spoliation Advisory Panel for an opinion on the appropriate action to take in response to the claim given the fact that the claim is solely for restitution.”