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R v District Auditor No 3 Audit District of West Yorkshire MCC, ex p West Yorkshire MCC

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Date argued
  
1986

Full case name
  
R v District Auditor No 3 Audit District of West Yorkshire Metropolitan City Council, ex parte West Yorkshire Metropolitan City Council

Location
  
West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Similar
  
Paul v Constance, Knight v Knight, Milroy v Lord, Vandervell v IRC, Re Rose

R v District Auditor No 3 Audit District of West Yorkshire MCC, ex parte West Yorkshire MCC [1986] RVR 24 is an English trusts law case, concerning the certainty of trusts, and their administrative workability.

Contents

Facts

The council wished to create a discretionary trust of £400,000 to be applied for a list of purposes ‘for the benefit of any or all or some of the inhabitants of the county of West Yorkshire.'

Judgment

Taylor J held that the trust was invalid, because it was administratively unworkable to distribute such small amounts to all people. The trust was not, however, ‘capricious’, but merely too difficult and costly for a court to enforce.

References

R v District Auditor No 3 Audit District of West Yorkshire MCC, ex p West Yorkshire MCC Wikipedia