John Robert Biggs is a British Labour Co-op politician who was Mayor of Tower Hamlets between 2015 and 2022.
Biggs in 2008
Erlam v Rahman
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Erlam and others v Rahman and another EWHC 1215 is an English election court case challenging the 2014 election of Lutfur Rahman as the Mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. On 23 April 2015,
John Biggs (London politician)
…to Biggs' 34,143 (47.73%) with a total of 84,234 valid ballots cast. Immediately following the election, four voters challenged the result in the case Erlam v Rahman. In a rare intervention the election court overturned the result, ejecting both Rahman and his election agent from office, barring both from future…
Troxy theatre, the venue for the election count
The Royal Courts of Justice, where the trial eventually took place
Tower Hamlets Town Hall at Mulberry Place, the original location of the trial, and the venue for the count of the subsequent election held in June 2015.