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Irrationality, mean what can by now be succinctly referred to Wednesbury unreasonableness, Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service, (1984) 3 All ER 935: 1985 AC 374: (1984) 3 WLR 1174 (HL).

Means what can be now be succinctly referred to as Wednesbury unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it, State of NCT of Delhi v. Sanjeev, (2005) 5 SCC 181.

Means what can by now be succinctly referred to as Wednesbury unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it, Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service, (1984) 3 All ER 935: 1985 AC 374: (1984) 3 WLR 1174 (HL