LEGAL WORD

Wednesbury unreasonableness

Doctrine · Administrative law

Wednesbury unreasonableness

  • Type: Doctrine
  • Area of law: Administrative law

1 What it means

A decision so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could have made it.

2 Use it in a sentence

The penalty was so disproportionate that it was Wednesbury unreasonable.

3 Make it stick

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