Wigan Council informed of possible Court Action before Thursday

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I am writing this Blog post because after yesterday's massive hearing to grant Steve Jones a Judicial Review.

After speaking with Steve today and also taking our own legal advice today we have now put Wigan Council on formal notice that should they not cancel the By Election by the end of Business on Monday (5pm) then we will considering going back to the High Court and asking for an injunction again to stop the By Election.

Some of you may be saying why? There are a few reason for this - the first one is that the only reason why we were not granted an injunction yesterday was because Donna Hall was not in the Court so let's resolve that matter. The judge was nearly minded anyway to ask her to appear the following day ( today Friday 16th February 2018 ).

However, we have taken our own legal advice with a top leading law firm in London today and they have pointed out a very important point that needs to be considered before Thursday we believe,

Hopefully Donna Hall - who we have written to this evening - along with the head of Legal Services and their Barrister Mr Peter Oldham QC will discuss the matter between them and cancel the by election by the end of business on Monday. That is not only just for us but for all the other candidates and more importantly the electorate.

I write this blog post to address why we may do this next week and also because Wigan Council said we didn't really tell them last time that we were going to take them to court. By emailing them all this evening and also putting it on the blog they cannot say they and others have not been informed.

At this stage we cannot say anything further on the matter until we know what the actions of the Returning Officer and Chief Executive Donna Hall on Monday.