Court win for Southern – but case highlights failings

Wednesday 21st September 2011, 2:57PM BST.

Deputy Geoff Southern

ST Helier Deputy Geoff Southern will not be struck out of the forthcoming elections on 19 October, the Royal Court decided yesterday.

After a hearing lasting almost three hours, the court rejected an application from Senatorial candidate Darius Pearce asking that Deputy Southern’s nomination be declared invalid.

He had claimed that the Deputy’s proposer had breached the election law by failing to read out the candidate’s criminal convictions on nomination night.

However, the case did expose two gaps in election procedures, which Deputy Bailiff William Bailhache said needed sorting out.

• See Wednesday’s JEP for the full story

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R.U.A.Democrat ?

September 21, 2011 at 3:52 pm

Hmmm…..
Southern can be annoying.

But ask to strike out an election candidate on a technicality ?

An odd decision if you are a democrat ?

Darius Pearce may not be a democrat.

To be fair; nor are some of the others.

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