Oliver & Partners were proud to have supported Harry Shindler in his campaign to restore voting rights to the estimated 3.5 million British citizens living abroad. From 16th January 2024, when the Elections Act 2022 came into force, British citizens living outside the UK for any length of time may now register to vote in UK elections, if they meet one...
Read MoreHarry Shindler takes expat vote to High Court
Legal challenge to uphold the expat vote for British nationals in the EU Referendum. The London law firm Leigh Day lodged an application for an urgent judicial review against the UK Government in the High Court on 16th March 2016. This application challenges the decision to exclude up to 2 million British nationals living in the European Union from the...
Read MoreHarry Shindler at the European Commission
Harry Shindler, the British war veteran who is represented by Oliver & Partners in his case at the European Court of Human Rights, met Viviane Reding, the Vice-President of the European Commission on 5th September 2013 in Brussels with members of her cabinet and legal advisors. For details of the application to the ECHR (Shindler v United Kingdom no....
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