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Wednesbury unreasonable

adj

Etymology

From Wednesbury + unreasonable. Wednesbury refers to the case of Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v Wednesbury Corporation, in which the Court of Appeal of England and Wales refused to quash a decision by the Wednesbury Corporation to ban children under 15 from entering cinemas on Sundays, and laid down in what cases courts could quash unreasonable administrative decisions.

  1. derived from irratiōnābilis
  2. inherited from unresonable
  3. compounded as wednesbury unreasonable — “Wednesbury + unreasonable”

Definitions

  1. In judicial reviews of administrative decisions

    In judicial reviews of administrative decisions: being unreasonable to the extent that no reasonable person or authority would make such a decision.

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