Tag: prisoner voting; Human Rights Act 1998; declarations of incompatibility; European Convention on Human Rights
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Ruvi Ziegler: The missing right to vote: The UK Supreme Court’s judgment in Chester and McGeoch
On 16 October 2013, a seven-judge panel of the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) unanimously rejected two challenges (R (Chester) v Secretary of State for Justice and McGeoch v The Lord President of the Council & Anor and the judgment summary) brought by prisoners serving terms of life imprisonment against their disenfranchisement in UK national elections pursuant to…