Electoral Campaigns in UK Law
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R v Rowe, ex parte Mainwaring
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Some consideration was given during argument to the standard of proof required to establish a breach of the subsection. If a person is found guilty of a corrupt practice under section 115 he is liable to be prosecuted on indictment. Furthermore he may be the subject of severe electoral disqualifications under section 160(4). If there is a prosecution there is no doubt that the case must be proved to the criminal standard of proof.
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Gough v Local Sunday Newspapers (North) Ltd and Another (No. 2); Field v Local Sunday Newspapers (North) Ltd (No.2)
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Mr Gough was directly involved in the decision to make the application under rule 47. Mr Field told him that he agreed to the application being made if it could properly be done. The question which Mr Gough had to decide was whether, in the circumstances which had arisen, it was permissible to apply under rule 47. It was incumbent upon Mr Gough, who had been asked to advise about the feasibility of using rule 47, to address all these questions.
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R (Begum (Sultana)) v Tower Hamlets London LBC
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Generally speaking, public bodies should be kept to their promises. A public body should not be permitted to resile from a legitimate expectation which it has created in the minds of those members of the public to whom the undertaking which gave rise to the expectation was addressed, or who were affected by the practice which confirmed that expectation, and from which it would be an abuse of the process to resile.
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Andrew Erlam and Others (Petitioners) v Mohammed Lutfur Rahman and Another
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Electoral law has always drawn the concept of agency very widely. In the days when those standing for election (particularly to Parliament) would be members of the upper classes, it was not supposed that they would do their own electioneering. It was taken for granted that others would carry out the hard work of persuading voters. In an era before political parties were professionally organised, the candidate would collect a body of dedicated supporters who would campaign on his behalf.
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Morgan v Simpson
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2. If the election was so conducted that it was substantially in accordance with the law as to elections, it is not vitiated by a breach of the rules or a mistake at the polls - provided that it did not affect the result of the election. That is shown by the Islington case where fourteen ballot papers were issued after 8 p.m.
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R (Island Farm Development Ltd) v Bridgend County Borough Council
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The reality is that Councillors must be trusted to abide by the rules which the law lays down, namely that, whatever their views, they must approach their decision-making with an open mind in the sense that they must have regard to all material considerations and be prepared to change their views if persuaded that they should.
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Pro-Life Alliance v BBC
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In a society based upon the rule of law and the separation of powers, it is necessary to decide which branch of government has in any particular instance the decision-making power and what the legal limits of that power are. That is a question of law and must therefore be decided by the courts.
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Fighting for power: Zambia's general election is expected between September and October. But campaigns are already under way even as the credibility of the electoral commission is at stake. Austin Mbewe reports from Lusaka.
...THIS WILL NO DOUBT BE THE MOST tightly contested election since 1991 when the country reverted to multiparty politics after 17 years of one-party rule. The ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) will have been in power for 20 years this year ......
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Is the equalization/normalization lens dead? Social media campaigning in US congressional elections
Purpose: Early information technology scholarship centered on the internet’s potential to be a democratizing force was often framed using an equalization/normalization lens arguing that either the ...
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David S. Bell and Byron Criddle: Exceptional Socialists: The Case of the French Socialist Party.
...... its historical resistance to 'social democratisation' and poor electoral record. It is this theme that the authors weave through the rest of the ...', which has historically characterised Socialist electoral campaigns and subsequent periods of governing (p. 213). Yet although Bell and ......
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The political brain: the role of emotion in deciding the fate of the nation.
......Westen's central point is that successful political campaigns 'compete in the marketplace of emotions and not primarily in the ...Westen argues that the electoral failure of the Democrats has been their evasion of these cultural ......
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Disinformation And Fake News': Data Implications Of The Select Committee Report
...... into a range of issues, including the extent to which electoral law is fit for purpose, the use of data analytics in political campaigns ......
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Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation publishes final report on “online targeting”
On February 4, 2020, the United Kingdom’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (“DEI”) published its final report on “online targeting” (the “Report”), examining practices used to monitor a person......... should increase coordination of their digital literacy campaigns. The DEI supports the UK government’s plans for to ensure online ......
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Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation Publishes Final Report on “Online Targeting”
On February 4, 2020, the United Kingdom’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (“DEI”) published its final report on “online targeting” (the “Report”), examining practices used to monitor a person......... should increase coordination of their digital literacy campaigns. The DEI supports the UK government’s plans for to ensure online ......
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Public Law Case Update - December 2018
...... in the law on referendum expenses - R (The Good Law Project) v Electoral Commission and others; Rules of interpretation (2) - applying the ejusdem ... interpreted the legislation which limited spending on referendum campaigns by permitted participants. Vote Leave (a permitted participant in the ......