The Election Judges Rota Rules 2015
Part III of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (“the 1983 Act”) makes provision for legal proceedings in relation to elections, including the trial of parliamentary election petitions. Under section 123 of the 1983 Act, a parliamentary election petition is in England and Wales to be tried by two judges on the rota for the trial of parliamentary election petitions. Section 142 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 provides for the judges to be placed on the rota for the trial of parliamentary election petitions in England and Wales under Part III of the 1983 Act to be selected from the judges of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court exclusive of any who are members of the House of Lords (the section takes no account of whether they are members who are disqualified from sitting or voting in the House of Lords by virtue of their judicial office), in such manner as may be provided by rules of court.