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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.
Wednesbury Corporation (1947), [9] the High Court had introduced the idea of Wednesbury unreasonableness, that is, a public authority's decision is unlawful if, although they have "kept within the four corners of the matters they ought to consider, they have nevertheless come to a conclusion so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ...
In considering unreasonableness in the Wednesbury sense, the court is not entitled to substitute its view of how the discretion should be exercised for what was actually done, nor is unreasonableness established if the court merely comes to the view that such a policy or guideline may not work effectively as another, since the court is not ...
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]
Kiara was involved in a brawl in a school hallway that was fast, furious and, like so many others, inspired by a Facebook post.A girl had posted a photo of another girl cozying up to a boy who was somebody else’s boyfriend.
This standard is also known as Wednesbury unreasonableness, after the decision in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation, where it was first imposed. Unlike illegality and procedural impropriety, the courts under this head look at the merits of the decision, rather than at the procedure by which it was arrived at or ...
2 Abstract Although recent legislation has been enacted to require fast-food restaurants to display calorie information on menus, the consequences of posting such information remain unclear.