English Explanatory Dictionary

Wednesbury unreasonable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Wednesbury unreasonable

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.

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