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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.
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]
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 ...
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must be reasonable having regard for the scope of development and must be enforceable (the Wednesbury Principle). It remains the responsibility of Councils to ensure that conditions are imposed having appropriate regard for key planning principles, as contained within relevant planning policies and which do not unreasonably burden the consent ...