Party free to set cut off date for leadership vote
The court heard an appeal against orders as to the right to vote in a forthcoming Labour party leadership election. At first instance the judge had found that the claimants should have been given the right to participate.
Held: The appeal was allowed. A correct interpretation of the party’s Rule Book, the National Executive did have the right to fix such a cut off date. It was inescapable, that in any vote, some members would be excluded.
Beatson , Macur , Sales LJJ
[2016] EWCA Civ 817, [2016] WLR(D) 460
Bailii, WLRD
England and Wales
Company
Updated: 02 November 2021; Ref: scu.568626
