Shindler case on expat vote in the Brexit referendum unsuccessful

The UK High Court has ruled in the case Harry Shindler MBE, Jacquelyn MacLennan -v- Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs that Section 2 of the EU Referendum Act 2015 does not infringe the free movement rights of the claimants as a result of the exclusion of all bar external voters who have only been resident outside the UK for 15 years or fewer from the franchise.

Read our earlier news item and the full text of the judgment.