Hipperson v Newbury District Electoral Registration Officer

Subject Matter

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, ss 1(1), 5(1)(2)(3)

[1985] QB 1060; [1985] 3 WLR 61; [1985] 2 All ER 456; 83 LGR 638, CA