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A challenge to a recent east London mayoral election will go ahead after the High Court yesterday rejected Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s bid to block it.
Four voters, headed by unsuccessful anti-corruption council candidate Andy Erlam, have launched an election petition to get Mr Rahman’s re-election declared void on fraud allegations.
Lawyers for the Tower Hamlets First party mayor applied for the petition to be dismissed as an abuse of process, saying that sufficient particulars of the allegations were not given.
But Mr Justice Supperstone said it was not appropriate to strike out any of the grounds contained in the petition “for want of sufficient particularity” though they did order further details of their allegations by August 18.
The judges also refused an application by Mr Erlam and his fellow petitioners for the trial of the petition to take place outside Tower Hamlets — at the High Court.
