sentences:  In July 2009, five private schools in the North West of England had been investigated and it was concluded that two of the five gave insufficient benefit to the public and had therefore failed the proposed test.These school would lose their charitable status in a year's time ""unless they gave out more bursaries"", but these schools were allowed to keep their charitable status in 2010 after re-addressing their public benefit.The Independent Schools Council successfully challenged the controversial "public benefit" test, at a tribunal hearing which cost the Commission £185,000 in legal costs.