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Rahman legal challenge to go ahead

Independent Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman has had his High Court bid to block a challenge to his election victory rejected.

By MJ Correspondent | 29 July 2014

Independent Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman has had his High Court bid to block a challenge to his election victory rejected.

Lawyers for Mr Rahman had applied for a petition headed by Andy Erlam, who stood as a councillor on an anti-corruption ticket, to be dismissed as an abuse of process.

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