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
