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The popularity of discretionary trusts rose sharply after the decision of the House of Lords in McPhail v Doulton 1971 AC 424 where Lord Wilberforce restated the test for certainty of objects in connection with discretionary trusts.
However, such conceptual objections seem less strong since the decision of the House of Lords in McPhail v Doulton 1971 AC 424 where Lord Wilberforce rode roughshod over objections to widening the class of valid discretionary trusts on the basis that there would be difficulty ascertaining beneficiaries for the court to enforce the trust in favour of.
Richard Wilberforce was a great-great-grandson of the famous abolitionist William Wilberforce, and son of a judge of the Lahore High Court, India.