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Roberts v Hopwood
[1925] AC 578
Key Principle
A local authority exercising statutory discretion must act reasonably and in accordance with its fiduciary duty to ratepayers; paying wages at a level dictated by socialist principle rather than market or service rationale was ultra vires.
Area of Law
public-law
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