In Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 233 CA, the Court of Appeal held that, when considering whether a local authority with unlimited powers has acted reasonably in the exercise of those powers, the court is entitled to investigate the action of the authority only with a view to seeing if it has taken into account any matters that ought not to have been taken into account or that ought to have been disregarded.
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