Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation

Facts

A council licensed Sunday cinema opening on condition that no children under fifteen were admitted.

Issue

Was the condition unreasonable?

Held

No. The condition was within the council's power and not unreasonable.

Principle

Lord Greene MR: the court can interfere only where a decision is so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ever have come to it.

Why it matters

The source of Wednesbury unreasonableness.

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