Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1947
Year1947
Date1947
CourtCourt of Appeal

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4323 cases
  • Eircom Ltd v Commission for Communications Regulation
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 29 July 2005
    ...NETWORKS & SERVICES) (ACCESS) REGS 2003 SI 305/2003 ART 6(1) ASSOCIATED PROVINCIAL PICTURE HOUSES LTD v WEDNESBURY CORPORATION 1948 1 KB 223 KEEGAN, STATE v STARDUST VICTIMS COMPENSATION TRIBUNAL 1986 IR 642 KIBERD & CAREY v HAMILTON 1992 2 IR 257 1992 ILRM 574 O'KEEFFE v BORD PLEANALA ......
  • 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
    ...with whom they do business should seek legal advice. Footnotes 1. Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 2. A Recognised Investment Exchange is an investment exchange recognised by the Financial Conduct Authority as meeting the requirements of The ......
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74 books & journal articles
  • Government liability in negligence.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 32 No. 1, April 2008
    • 1 April 2008
    ...158. (18) Ibid 157. (19) Ibid 158. (20) Ibid (recommendation 39). (21) Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 (22) Ipp Report, above n 8, 157-9. (23) [1996] AC 923. In fact, Stovin had suggested gross carelessness as a reason for imposing liability......
  • 'Anxious Scrutiny' in the Irish Courts: Too Little, Too Late?
    • Ireland
    • Hibernian Law Journal No. 8-2008, January 2008
    • 1 January 2008
    ...any remaining defects of style or content are entirely my own. 1 Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223. 2 See generally Sir John Laws, “Wednesbury” in Forsyth and Hare (eds), The Golden Metwand and the Crooked Cord (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998) ......
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...including that such policy not be considered unreasonable in the Wednesbury (Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp[1948] 1 KB 223) sense: City Developments Ltd v Chief Assessor[2008] 4 SLR 150 (‘City Developments’) at [10]. In assessing this particular meaning of reason......
  • LOCALISING ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...Rule of Law: The Path to Exceptionalism” (2016) 28 SAcLJ 413 at paras 26–29. 84Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp[1948] 1 KB 223 at 228–229, per Lord Greene MR. 85 Most notably, cases involving alleged infringements of common law fundamental rights (these cases large......
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