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Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation

[1948] 1 KB 223
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
Year1948
Statusunclear

Key Principle

A decision is open to judicial review only if it is so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have made it — the Wednesbury irrationality test. Together with illegality and procedural impropriety this forms the three-ground framework for judicial review.

Area of Law

public-law

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