Employment law cases

Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 CA

Reports relating to this case:

  • Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation

    Date:
    31 December 1948

    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.