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.
West Yorkshire Metropolitan County 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.'
Taylor J held that the trust was invalid, because it was administratively unworkable to distribute such small amounts to all people.
A trust with as many as 2 ½ million potential beneficiaries is, in my judgment, quite simply unworkable.
But it could hardly be more apt, or fit the facts of the present case more precisely.