Patently unreasonable
In Canadian law, patently unreasonable or the patent unreasonableness test was a standard of review used by a court when performing judicial review of administrative decisions. It was the highest of three standards of review: correctness, unreasonableness, and patent unreasonableness. Although the term "patent unreasonableness" lacked a precise definition in the common law, it was somewhere above unreasonableness, and consequently it was relatively difficult to show that a decision was patently unreasonable. A simple example of a patently unreasonable decision may be one that does not accord at all with the facts or law before it, or one that completely misstates a legal test. By a decision issued on March 7, 2008, this test was removed from the law by the Supreme Court of Canada in Dunsmuir v New Brunswick as represented by Board of Management .In Toronto (City) Board of Education v.