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Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation
[1948] 1 KB 223
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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