The claimant sought a judicial review of the regulations allowing sale of the electoral role by local government bodies to registered credit reference agencies. An adjournment was refused, and the case proceeded in his absence.
Held: The earlier case had successfully challenged the earlier regulations because they allowed the sale of electoral registers for marketing purposes. The new regulations restricted sales to appropriate and registered credit reference agencies for the prevention of fraud and similar purposes. Any interference in the claimant’s was small and justified and proportionate given that wider social aim.
Maurice Kay J
[2003] EWHC 1760 (Admin), Times 11-Aug-2003
Bailii
Representation of the People (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (2002 No 1871) 114
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Reid, Robertson v City of Wakefield Metropolitan Council, Secretary of State for the Home Department Admn 16-Nov-2001
The claimant requested the defendant authority to remove his details from the electoral register before it was sold on to third parties. They refused. He claimed that the information had been obtained from him under penalty of criminal charges, and . .
Cited – Mathieu Mohin and Clerfayt v Belgium ECHR 2-Mar-1987
(Plenary Court) The court described and approved the way in which an ‘institutional’ right to vote had developed into ‘subjective rights of participation – the ‘right to vote’ and the ‘right to stand for election’.’ It described the ambit of Article . .
Cited by:
Cited – I-CD Publishing Ltd v The Secretary of State, The Information Commissioner (Interested Party) Admn 21-Jul-2003
The claimant sought judicial review challenging the restrictions on the sale of electoral registers to registered credit reference agencies. Following Robertson (1) the new regulations created two registers, and the claimant sought to be able to . .
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Elections, Information, Human Rights
Updated: 12 November 2021; Ref: scu.184847