Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp
Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 is an English law case that sets out the standard of unreasonableness in the decision of a public body, which would make it liable to be quashed on judicial review, known as Wednesbury unreasonableness.
| Associated Provincial Picture Houses v Wednesbury Corporation | |
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Former Wednesbury Cinema | |
| Court | Court of Appeal of England and Wales |
| Decided | November 10, 1947 |
| Citation(s) | [1948] 1 KB 223, [1947] EWCA Civ 1 |
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| Judge(s) sitting | Lord Greene, Somervell LJ, Singleton J |
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| Administrative law |
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Administrative law in common law jurisdictions |
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Administrative law in civil law jurisdictions |
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The court gave three conditions on which it would intervene to correct a bad administrative decision, including on grounds of its unreasonableness in the special sense later articulated in Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service by Lord Diplock:
So outrageous in its defiance of logic or accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it.
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