The Weekly Law Reports
[2020] 3 WLR 569
Queen’s Bench Division
Greene
v
Forbes
[2020] EWHC 676 (QB)
2019 Dec 3; 2020 March 20
Knowles, Holgate JJ
Election— Petition— Court’s jurisdiction— Petitioner applying for leave to withdraw election petition to set aside parliamentary by-election result— Parliament dissolved before court hearing to consider application— Whether election petition dropping or abating on dissolution of Parliament— Whether court retaining jurisdiction to determine application to withdraw petition and/or issues of costs—
Representation of the People Act 1983 (c 2), ss 147, 154, 157(3)
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