5. EQUITY AND TRUSTS
QUESTION
“The rule against relief to volunteers cannot, I conceive, in a case like that before me, be stated highthan this, that a court of equity will not, in favour of a volunteer, give to a deed any effect beyond what the law will give to it.”
Per Wigram V.C. Fletcher v. Fletcher (1844) 4 Hare 67;
Therefore to what extent has the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 altered the position of the volunteer under an imperfect/ incompletely constituted trust?
Discuss