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Elections - From: 1900 To: 1929
This page lists 6 cases, and was prepared on 21 May 2019.
Cockermouth Division of the County of Cumberland (1901) 5 O'MandH
1901
Darling J
Elections
In construing the validity of statements made during an election, the court distinguished between false statements of fact, affecting personal character or conduct, and false statements of fact, dealing with the political position, reputation or action of the candidate.
1 Citers
Nairn and Others v St Andrews and Edinburgh Universities' University Courts and Others [1908] UKHL 132; 46 SLR 132
10 Dec 1908
HL
Lord Chancellor (Loreburn), Lord Ashbourne, Lord Robertson, and Lord Collins
Elections, Education, Discrimination
On a consideration of the statutes dealing with the franchise for universities, that women graduates of a Scottish university are not entitled to vote at the election of a Member of Parliament for the university, and, not being voters, are not entitled to receive voting papers from the registrar of the university.
[ Bailii ]
Nairn v University of St Andrews; HL 10-Dec-1908 - [1909] AC 147; 1909 SC (HL) 10; [1908] UKHL 3; (1908) 16 SLT 619
The North Division of the County of Louth; 1911 - (1911) 6 O'M and H 103
Young and Others v Burgh of Darvel [1922] UKHL 48; 60 SLR 48
2 Nov 1922
HL
Lord Chancellor, Viscount Haldane, Viscount Finlay, Lord Dunedin, and Lord Shaw
Elections
A poll under the Temperance (Scotland) Act 1913 and a municipal election took place on the same day, in the same place, before the same presiding officers, and by means of the same ballot boxes, distinctively coloured ballot papers being issued to the electors who came to the polling stations. In an action for reduction of the poll in connection with the Temperance Act, on the ground, inter alia, that it was illegal to hold the two polls together, held ( aff. the judgment of the First Division) that the course adopted of taking the polls together was not in itself illegal.
[ Bailii ]
Regina v Hailwood; CCA 1928 - [1928] 2 KB 277
