“…Mr Jones contrasted those cases with Ali & Anr v McDonagh [2002] ICR 1026 in which would be Labour Party candidates in local elections were suspended for alleged breaches of the party’s rules, pending disciplinary hearings, claimed t…”
“…ered is whether the Labour Party is a qualifying body for the purposes of section 12. In my opinion, for the reasons given by Peter Gibson LJ in Ali v McDonagh [2002] ICR 1026, it is not. The notion of an “authorisation or qualification” suggests some kind of objective standard which the qualifying body applies, an even-handed, not t…”