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All Africa (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
Former US President Bill Clinton, musician Bob Geldof and Tom Hunter, a Scottish philanthropist, have announced a 4.7 million-pound scheme to boost schools in Rwanda and Malawi.
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008
Eurosceptic millionaire Stuart Wheeler lost his High Court battle today over the British government’s refusal to hold a referendum on the EU’s Lisbon Treaty. Two judges rejected his claim that he had a “legitimate expectation” that there would be a public vote. Mr Wheeler, 73, says he believes the Lisbon Treaty is “dead” anyway as a result of its rejection in the referendum in Ireland, but ministers...
Head of Legal (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
You'll know by now that Stuart Wheeler's judicial review of the government's refusal to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty has failed: here's the judgment. This is hardly a surprise: it was always a hopeless case. The real surprise will be if he decides to waste his wealth appealing. And of course the wrath of Richards LJ about the government's intention to continue the ratification process
Teknosis (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
UPDATE, Thursday 26th June: On the secondary matter of Stuart Wheeler's High Court request for a Judicial Review of the Brown Government's notorious and wholly unseemly haste in ratifying the pernicious and collapsing Lisbon Collective Treaty, the British press this...
Daniel Hannan (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Thanks to everyone who contributed to Stuart Wheeler's legal fund . As I type this on the flight from Valladolid, I see in ABC (the Telegraph 's sister paper) that " el millonario euroescéptico " has lost his court challenge for a referendum on the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty. There was never much chance that a judge would overrule the government once both Houses of Pa...
Make My Vote Count (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
I offer this up for anyone's comment and simply because it is a noteworthy observation by the Guardian's Andrew Sparrow: "On the day Stuart Wheeler failed in his legal bid to hold up ratification of the EU's Lisbon treaty, it...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
BRITISH RATIFICATION: EUROSCEPTIC MILLIONAIRE Stuart Wheeler claims he has "high hopes" of winning an appeal against the High Court's rejection of his bid to force a British referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Slaw (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Stuart Wheeler has lost a High Court case in his bid for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Two judges rejected the millionaire’s claim that there was a “legitimate expectation” of a public vote. The Beeb summarizes the decision well, the Guardian has the key findings of the case, and Bailii has the entire decision. [...]
Benedict Brogan's political blog (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
The ratification of the European constitution Lisbon Treaty depends upon it. Downing Street says Britain's final acceptance of the document, now that Stuart Wheeler's case has crashed in flames, will take place in days or weeks: "It depends on the...
Why England Needs A Parliament (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Kent Online displays its ignorance and trivialises the English Parliament issue by claiming it's got us "hot under the stiff upper lip" (surely that's "British"?!) and allowing the final say in its quoted comments to go to somebody with no grasp of the facts at all: Robbie Craig from Dungeness, said: “ The only point of new government tiers is if they increase the accountability of politicians and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Key findings from the high court judgment dismissing Stuart Wheeler's attempt to force the government to hold a referendum on the EU treaty
Colin Ross News Stories (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Stuart Wheeler, the Conservative Eurosceptic millionaire has lost his High Court Bid to force a referendum on the Lisbon treaty.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Stuart Wheeler, the spread-betting multimillionaire and Tory party donor, lost a High Court battle to force the government to hold a referendum on the European Union’s Lisbon reform treaty Share This
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Tory party donor who made his fortune on spread betting has never been afraid to speak his mind
eurealist (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
Even a pessimist like me has a small degree of hope that an obviously lost cause would be reversed in the end. However unfortunately that is not to be, as the high court have now rejected Stuart Wheelers case against Gordon Brown for not holding a referendum. From Press reports Lord Justice Richards and Mr Justice [...]
