Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal
Judgment Date1947
Year1947
Date1947

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3935 cases
  • Eircom Ltd v Commission for Communications Regulation
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 29 July 2005
    ...upon it when applying the Wednesbury/Stardust/O'Keeffe test. See Associated Provincial Pictures Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Compensation [1948] 1 K.B. 223, The State (Keegan) v. The Stardust/O'Keeffe Victims Compensation Tribunal [1986] I.R. 642, Kiberd v. Mr. Justice Hamilton [1992] 2 I.R. 2......
  • M and Another v London Borough of Newham and Others; X and Others v Bedfordshire County Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 29 June 1995
    ...a decision into the question of liability at common law for negligence. In public law a decision can be ultra vires for reasons other than Wednesbury unreasonableness ( Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 K.B. 223) (e.g. breach of the rules of natur......
  • Huang v Secretary of State for the Home Department; Abu-Qulbain v Same; Kashmiri v Same
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 March 2007
    ...26-28, Lord Steyn pointed out that neither the traditional approach to judicial review formulated in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 nor the heightened scrutiny approach adopted in R v Ministry of Defence, Ex p Smith [1996] QB 517 had provid......
  • Barrett v Enfield London Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 17 June 1999
    ... ... test the public law concept of Wednesbury unreasonableness to determine if the decision ... ...
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18 firm's commentaries
  • Court Of Appeal Just Another Stop On The Road For QASA
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 15 December 2014
    ...submitted that instead of the Wednesbury standard of review (Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1947] 2 All ER 680), the Divisional Court should have applied the more demanding standard of proportionality, because of QASA's potential to infringe upon fundamen......
  • Award for future economic loss where no loss is presently suffered
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 6 October 2011
    ...240; Soulemezis v Dudley (Holdings) Pty Ltd (1987) 10 NSWLR 247 3 Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation (1948) 1 KB 223 Ranked No 1 - Australia's fastest growing law firm' (Legal Partnership Survey, The Australian July The content of this article is intended to p......
  • Letters Of Wishes: Adequate Deliberations
    • Bermuda
    • Mondaq Bermuda
    • 27 October 2014
    ...I.C.R. 991, 999; Wild v Pensions Ombudsman [1996] O.P.L.R. 129, 135. Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 K.B. 223. Chadwick LJ quoted [(n 10) 628-30] at length from the judgment of Lord Greene MR at See (n 11) 628. [2012] ch 132 at 164-65 (per Lloyd L......
  • LME's Cancellation Of Nickel Trades Was Not Unlawful
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 16 January 2024
    ...of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Recognition Requirements for Investment Exchanges and Clearing Houses) Regulations 2001Wednesbury1 unreasonable), and should be quashed. They also sought damages, on the basis that the LME's decision resulted in unlawful interference with thei......
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76 books & journal articles
  • Objective justification, less discriminatory alternatives, and the ‘Great Repeal Bill’
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Discrimination and the Law No. 17-3, September 2017
    • 1 September 2017
    ...House of Lords (4-1) reversed the Court ofAppeal on this point.102. Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v. Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223(CA).212 International Journal of Discrimination and the Law...
  • Any Excuse for Certainty: English Perspectives on the Defence of ‘Reasonable Excuse’
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 74-5, October 2010
    • 1 October 2010
    ...Section 5 of the Public Order Act’ [2004] PL 853. 59 Ibid. at 866.60 Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1947] 2 All ER 680, CA codified the principle that where a decision is so out of the realms of normaldecision-making that no reasonable authority could hav......
  • Judicial Review of Migration Decisions: Life after S157
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 33-1, March 2005
    • 1 March 2005
    ...[2004] FCAFC 286, [18] 88 After the judgment of Lord Greene MR in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223, 229–30. 89 S20 (2003) 198 ALR 59, 76 [73]–[74] (McHugh and Gummow JJ), 90 [142] (Kirby J). Gleeson CJ and Callinan J did not address this ques......
  • No Place Like Home: The UK Courts' Cautious Approach on Applying the European Convention on Human Rights to English Housing Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Southampton Student Law Review No. 10-1, January 2020
    • 1 January 2020
    ...of the lower courts in such cases in being bound by two strong authorities. 61 54 Associated Picture House Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 (CA). 55 Ian Loveland, ‘The newest latest last word on the relevance of ECHR Article 8 to possession proceedings’ [2010] JPL 415, 418. 56 D......
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