tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2120384823779407001.post2714358763563431396..comments2024-01-25T04:51:35.289+00:00Comments on The Defence Brief: Has Paul Nuttall of UKIP broken election law?Defence Briefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06385869501459309601noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2120384823779407001.post-28697812334825909492017-02-05T21:35:11.134+00:002017-02-05T21:35:11.134+00:00I am not a lawyer, but I have been an election age...I am not a lawyer, but I have been an election agent. In my view, the purpose of a candidate providing her/his home address is to enable the elector to identify them when casting their ballot (the home address being on the ballot paper, but not otherwise widely available). If a candidate has a common name and the elector knows someone with that name, the home address allows them to determine whether or not the candidate is in fact the person they know.<br /><br />Not really a relevant consideration in a Parliamentary by-election, when the candidate in question is the leader of a major national party!<br /><br />That said, the moral grounds for complaint here is the creation of the perception that he lives locally, when clearly he did not until (at best) he was adopted as a candidate in this by-election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2120384823779407001.post-17928548371875130502017-02-04T06:52:15.735+00:002017-02-04T06:52:15.735+00:00Nicholas, you are right that the 51 weeks custody ...Nicholas, you are right that the 51 weeks custody is not yet available to magistrates as s154 CJA 2003 has never been brought into force. There will be a provision somewhere that applies to all legislation using the 51 weeks that says in effect that that a ref to 51 weeks is to be read a a ref to 26 weeks until s 154 is brought into force.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com