It will be remembered that in ex p International Trader’s Ferry Ltd (1999), Lord Cooke criticized the Wednesbury notion of unreasonableness and argued instead that the relevant test should be ‘whether the decision in question was one which a reasonable authority could reach’

Writing Nov 26, 2020

It will be remembered that in ex p International Trader’s Ferry Ltd (1999), Lord Cooke criticized the Wednesbury notion of unreasonableness and argued instead that the relevant test should be ‘whether the decision in question was one which a reasonable authority could reach’. What purpose do you think Lord Cooke was trying to achieve by advocating the use of this ‘simple test’? Assuming that it was adopted, how would it be applied in practice?