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R v Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, ex parte Balchin

[1997] JPL 917

Case summary last updated at 05/01/2020 18:38 by the Oxbridge Notes in-house law team.

Judgement for the case R v Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, ex parte Balchin

  Sedley J held that a decision would be Wednesbury unreasonable if it disclosed an error of reasoning, which robbed the decision of its logical integrity. If such an error could be shown then it was not necessary for the applicant to show that the DM was ‘temporarily unhinged.’ 

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