UK: Good Law Project threatens lawsuit against Electoral Commission for failure to investigate DUP donation
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Campaigners against Brexit have announced their intention to sue the Electoral Commission unless it reopens an investigation into a £435,000 donation to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
The Good Law Project, founded by Jolyon Maugham QC, sent a formal pre-action letter to the electoral watchdog today.
Mr Maugham, who announced the action alongside Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, said they would go to the High Court in London to make sure that laws governing the conduct of the 2016 EU referendum are enforced.
The letter states: “The DUP received a donation of £435,000 from the CRC. £282,000 of this donation was made on the basis that it would be spent on an advertisement in the London Metro. The other sums donated may or may not have been paid contingent on their being spent on particular purposes.
“The DUP failed to make sufficient enquiries into the source of the donations beyond that they were made by an organisation called CRC.
“The Electoral Commission has failed to conduct an investigation into the irregularities set out above, and as such has failed in its duty to regulate the EU Referendum fairly.”
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