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R Yolande Kenward v Electoral Commission

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JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeMrs Justice Elisabeth Laing
Judgment Date05 December 2017
Neutral Citation[2017] EWHC 3804 (Admin)
Date05 December 2017
CourtQueen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
Docket NumberCO/3598/2016
Categories

[2017] EWHC 3804 (Admin)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT

Royal Courts of Justice

Before:

Mrs Justice Elisabeth Laing

CO/3598/2016

Between:
The Queen on the Application of Yolande Kenward
Applicant
and
Electoral Commission
Respondent

THE APPLICANT did not attend and was not represented.

THE RESPONDENT did not attend and was not represented.

Mrs Justice Elisabeth Laing
1

This is the hearing of the applicant's application, lodged on 13 November 2017, to set aside a General Civil Restraint Order (“GCRO”) made by Supperstone J on 19 September 2017 and to reopen her claim for judicial review and to order a by-election. The applicant has not attended. It is now 4.42 p.m. The associate, I am told, has attempted during the course of the day to contact the applicant by telephone, with no success, as the telephone was not answered.

2

On 17 November 2017, Walker J ordered the application to set aside the GCRO to be listed before a High Court judge; that no submissions be made about anything else; that submissions be limited to 15 minutes; that no other written material be lodged by the applicant; that no other party be served; and that no other party need attend the hearing.

3

The applicant's application for interim relief in respect of the Referendum result was refused on the papers by Ouseley J on 15 July 2016. She claimed that a leaflet issued by the Electoral Commission was misleading. He said that she should have pursued that before the Referendum, not after the result was announced.

4

On 2 August 2016, Ouseley J considered and refused her application for an injunction. He said his reasons for doing so were the same as...

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