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Elections

05 August 2016
Issue: 7710 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Foster v McNicol (sued on behalf of all other members of the Labour Party except the Claimant and the Second Defendant) and another [2016] EWHC 1966 (QB), [2016] All ER (D) 162 (Jul)

The Queen’s Bench Division held that, on the proper construction of the Labour Party Rule Book, the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party had correctly concluded that Jeremy Corbyn MP had been entitled to be on the ballot paper in the forthcoming leadership ballot, without the need to obtain any level of nominations.

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