diff --git a/code/controller/ContentController.php b/code/controller/ContentController.php
index 940e41cc..22da4a4d 100755
--- a/code/controller/ContentController.php
+++ b/code/controller/ContentController.php
@@ -133,9 +133,10 @@ class ContentController extends Controller {
 	 *
 	 * @return SS_HTTPResponse
 	 */
-	public function handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest $request) {		
+	public function handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest $request, DataModel $model) {
 		$child  = null;
 		$action = $request->param('Action');
+		$this->setModel($model);
 		
 		// If nested URLs are enabled, and there is no action handler for the current request then attempt to pass
 		// control to a child controller. This allows for the creation of chains of controllers which correspond to a
@@ -144,9 +145,9 @@ class ContentController extends Controller {
 			// See ModelAdController->getNestedController() for similar logic
 			if(class_exists('Translatable')) Translatable::disable_locale_filter();
 			// look for a page with this URLSegment
-			$child = DataObject::get_one('SiteTree', sprintf (
+			$child = $this->model->SiteTree->where(sprintf (
 				"\"ParentID\" = %s AND \"URLSegment\" = '%s'", $this->ID, Convert::raw2sql($action)
-			));
+			))->First();
 			if(class_exists('Translatable')) Translatable::enable_locale_filter();
 			
 			// if we can't find a page with this URLSegment try to find one that used to have 
@@ -180,7 +181,7 @@ class ContentController extends Controller {
 			$request->shiftAllParams();
 			$request->shift();
 			
-			$response = ModelAsController::controller_for($child)->handleRequest($request);
+			$response = ModelAsController::controller_for($child)->handleRequest($request, $model);
 		} else {
 			// If a specific locale is requested, and it doesn't match the page found by URLSegment,
 			// look for a translation and redirect (see #5001). Only happens on the last child in
@@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ class ContentController extends Controller {
 			}
 			
 			Director::set_current_page($this->data());
-			$response = parent::handleRequest($request);
+			$response = parent::handleRequest($request, $model);
 			Director::set_current_page(null);
 		}
 		
diff --git a/code/controller/ModelAsController.php b/code/controller/ModelAsController.php
index 1faac691..8789f2da 100755
--- a/code/controller/ModelAsController.php
+++ b/code/controller/ModelAsController.php
@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ class ModelAsController extends Controller implements NestedController {
 	 * @uses ModelAsController::getNestedController()
 	 * @return SS_HTTPResponse
 	 */
-	public function handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest $request) {
+	public function handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest $request, DataModel $model) {
 		$this->request = $request;
+		$this->setModel($model);
 		
 		$this->pushCurrent();
 
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ class ModelAsController extends Controller implements NestedController {
 			$result = $this->getNestedController();
 			
 			if($result instanceof RequestHandler) {
-				$result = $result->handleRequest($this->request);
+				$result = $result->handleRequest($this->request, $model);
 			} else if(!($result instanceof SS_HTTPResponse)) {
 				user_error("ModelAsController::getNestedController() returned bad object type '" . 
 					get_class($result)."'", E_USER_WARNING);
diff --git a/code/controller/RootURLController.php b/code/controller/RootURLController.php
index c9ebfacf..5d01e32d 100755
--- a/code/controller/RootURLController.php
+++ b/code/controller/RootURLController.php
@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ class RootURLController extends Controller {
 	 * @param SS_HTTPRequest $request
 	 * @return SS_HTTPResponse
 	 */
-	public function handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest $request) {
+	public function handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest $request, DataModel $model) {
 		self::$is_at_root = true;
+		$this->setModel($model);
 		
 		$this->pushCurrent();
 		$this->init();
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ class RootURLController extends Controller {
 		$request->match('$URLSegment//$Action', true);
 		
 		$controller = new ModelAsController();
-		$result     = $controller->handleRequest($request);
+		$result     = $controller->handleRequest($request, $model);
 		
 		$this->popCurrent();
 		return $result;
diff --git a/code/model/ErrorPage.php b/code/model/ErrorPage.php
index 753097c5..130157f8 100755
--- a/code/model/ErrorPage.php
+++ b/code/model/ErrorPage.php
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class ErrorPage extends Page {
 	public static function response_for($statusCode) {
 		// first attempt to dynamically generate the error page
 		if($errorPage = DataObject::get_one('ErrorPage', "\"ErrorCode\" = $statusCode")) {
-			return ModelAsController::controller_for($errorPage)->handleRequest(new SS_HTTPRequest('GET', ''));
+			return ModelAsController::controller_for($errorPage)->handleRequest(new SS_HTTPRequest('GET', ''), DataModel::inst());
 		}
 		
 		// then fall back on a cached version