Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation

Author: King's Bench
Document source:

United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales)
Date:
10 November 1947

In this section

Appeal dismissed.

Author

King's Bench

Title

Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation

Document source

United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales)

Date

10 November 1947

Document number

[1948] 1KB 223

Document type

Collection

Country

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Keywords

Effective remedy

Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness

Comments:

Application for judicial review. The Court held that when assessing a discretionary decision made by a public authority, the court would only interfere with the decision where it was so unreasonable that no other authority could ever have come to it.

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