Spicer r v O'Kane

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1919
• Date: 01 January 1919
• Court: Court of Appeal (Ireland)

C. A.,

Sinclair

and

O'Kane

Electors' lists - Objection to claim - Omnibus objection - Practice - Representation of the People Act 1918 (8 Geo. V., c. 64).

A duly qualified parliamentary elector who objected to a number of persons whose names appeared as claimants in the list of claims (parliamentary and local government), published by the registration officer, sent one notice of objection to the registration officer, including all possible grounds of objection in respect of both franchises, and in place of inserting the name of one individual as objected to in the body of the notice, he added a schedule consisting of the list of claims as published by the registration officer, with the names of persons to whom no objection was taken struck out: —Held, that the notice of objection was bad, and...