The Weekly Law Reports
[1985] 3 WLR 61
[COURT OF APPEAL]
HIPPERSON AND OTHERS v. NEWBURY DISTRICT ELECTORAL
REGISTRATION OFFICER AND ANOTHER
1985 April 24,
25;
May 1
May 1
Sir John Donaldson M.R., Stephen Brown L.J. and Glidewell J.
Parliament
— Election
— Registration
— Residential qualification
— Anti-nuclear encampment outside airfield
— Camp. extending over highway and common land
— Breaches of local byelaws
— Whether campers “resident” for voting rights
— Effect of illegality or unlawfulness of residence on franchise
—
Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2), ss. 1(1), 5(1)(2)(3)