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UKIP wins Supreme Court case

Thursday, 29th July 2010

The Supreme Court today ruled in favour of UKIP over a case of party donations.

Between December 2004 and February 2006, Alan Bown (pictured right), a retired businessman had donated a total of £349,216 to the party. During that time, due to an oversight Mr Bown was not on the UK electoral register which, under the law suggested that he was not a British resident. This was obviously not the case.
 
UKIP had argued that the forfeit should amount to £14,481 donated after the party became aware of the oversight, as did the initial Court ruling. The Electoral Commission believed that the whole sum should be forfeit.
 
In a 4-3 judgement the Supreme Court found that the spirit of the law counted more than the letter.
 
Speaking after the judgement Mr Bown said,: "I am pleased and relieved that this is all over. I feel no animosity towards the Electoral Commission, we understand they have a job to do. I always had confidence that British Justice would play fair. Now I have evidence that this is the case.

"We now intend to launch a UKIP membership drive, through a concerted leafleting campaign".
 
Lord Pearson, the UKIP leader said: "We are delighted with the result. We can now concentrate on our job...  working towards Britain leaving the European Union"."

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