Kids Company founder cleared to challenge critical watchdog report in court

Camila Batmanghelidjh called the Charity Commission’s report on the 2015 collapse of Kids Company a ‘rewriting of history’. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

The founder of the former children’s charity Kids Company, Camila Batmanghelidjh, has won permission to go to the high court to try to overturn a charities watchdog report she claims was unbalanced, unfair and unlawful.

Batmanghelidjh had vowed to mount a legal challenge to the Charity Commission’s inquiry report on the high-profile 2015 collapse of Kids Company when it was finally published in February, calling it a “travesty” and a “rewriting of history”.