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Elections
Election law is a complex and specialist area of practice in which there is new legislation almost annually as the government attempts to encourage wider voter participation and at the same time meet challenges to the integrity of the electoral process; postal voting being the most controversial.
We are one of the very few firms who offer expertise in this area. We have advised returning and other election officers for very many years both about the process in the run up to elections – we offer a ‘helpline’ for returning officers – and about post-election difficulties and the discrete judicial processes, including election petitions, peculiar to election law and practice. Most recently we have advised on the increasing application of technology to elections e.g. electronic vote counting.
Chambers UK 2008 ranks us equally with three other firms in this field.
Recent work includes:
The Winchester Election (Parliamentary)
The Literal Democrat Case - Sanders v Chichester (European Election)
Tower Hamlets (postal voting)
Knight v Nicholls (postal voting)
GLA Elections (electronic counting)
