Associated Provincial Picture Houses v Wednesbury Corporation

Question 1

when was this case

Answer 1

1948

Question 2

which court

Answer 2

court of appeal

Question 3

what came from this case

Answer 3

the terms “Wednesbury reasonableness” and “Wednesbury unreasonableness”.

Question 4

ratio

Answer 4

Where a public authority making a decision had only taken into account the matters it ought to have taken into account, the court could still interfere with the decision where it was so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ever have come to it.

Question 5

facts of the case

Answer 5

• Sunday Entertainments Act 1932 s.1 allowed local authorities to licence cinema performances “subject to such conditions as the authority think fit to impose”
• the local authority said no child under 15 may attend the cinema on a Sunday (weather with a parent or not)
• this case was an appeal on a previous decision which decided this was not ultra vires

Question 6

how many judges

Answer 6

3

Lord Greene M.R. , Somervell L.J. and Singleton J.