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Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 [1] 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.
Wednesbury unreasonableness is a ground of judicial review in Singapore administrative law. A governmental decision that is Wednesbury-unreasonable may be quashed by the High Court. This type of unreasonableness of public body decisions was laid down in the English case of Associated Provincial Picture Houses v.
Bancoult sought a writ of certiorari on the grounds that the ordinance was ultra vires and failed the Wednesbury test of reasonableness, as it was irrational. The case, R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, went to the Divisional Court, where it was heard by judges Richard Gibbs and John Laws. [13]
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In this type of case, which involves a change of policy by the authority, [66] the court can only review the decision on the grounds of Wednesbury unreasonableness. [67] In other words, it will determine if the decision was rational and whether the authority gave proper weight to the implications of not fulfilling the promise. [64]
A break in the case came in 2004, when Husain was arrested in Colorado for an unrelated burglary, authorities said. His DNA was entered into the national Combined DNA Index System, a database ...