Wednesbury unreasonable
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Describing a decision so unreasonable that no reasonable public body could have made it, following the Wednesbury case.
The claimant contended that refusing the licence on those facts was Wednesbury unreasonable.
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