The WLR Daily case summaries
[2010] WLR (D) 337
HUMAN RIGHTS— Right to free elections— Disfranchisement from voting in elections— Prisoner deprived of right to vote while serving sentence— Statutory blanket ban on prisoners voting contravening Convention right to free expression of people’s opinion in choice of legislature— Failure to enact amending legislation— Whether statute to be read as conferring on judiciary function of deciding whether any given prisoner to be disfranchised— Whether declaration of incompatibility to be granted— Representation of the People Act 1983, s 3(1)— European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002, s 8— Human Rights Act 1998, Sch 1, Pt II, art 3