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Elections - From: 2004 To: 2004
This page lists 3 cases, and was prepared on 21 May 2019.
Knight v Nicholls and Another Times, 05 February 2004
29 Jan 2004
CA
Tuckey, Sedley, Wall LJJ
Elections
The complainant said that in posting the postal voting forms, the returning officer had failed to 'issue' the ballot papers as required by the regulations. Held: The word 'issue' did not mean the same as succesfully deliver. The regulations clearly accepted the postal system as a satisfactory way of issuing te ballot papers.
Local Elections (Principal Area) Rules 1986 (1986 No 2214) 19 76(2)
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Hirst v The United Kingdom (No. 2) 74025/01; Times, 08 April 2004; [2004] ECHR 121; (2004) 38 EHRR 825; [2004] ECHR 122
30 Mar 2004
ECHR
Human Rights, Prisons, Elections
(Commission) The prisoner alleged that the denial of his right to vote whilst in prison was disproportionate. He was serving a life sentence for manslaughter. Held: The denial of a right to vote was in infringement of his rights and disproportionate. Different signatory countries had applied different standards. The UK law made a great distinction between different categories of offender or crime, but did not apply the same rules to prisoners on remand or imprisoned for non-payment of fines or contempt. There was no evidence of the issues having been considered by parliament in a way which took account of the issues of human rights.
Representation of the People Act 1983 3 - European Convention on Human Rights A3-1
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Aziz v Cyprus; ECHR 22-Jun-2004 - 69949/01; [2004] ECHR 271
