and then ignore it when a lawyer tells him he's got no case:
Deadline expires for legal challenge over George Galloway election defeat
George Galloway has missed a deadline to bring a legal challenge against the election result in Bradford West, where he lost his seat to Labour by more than 11,000 votes.
After being defeated by Naz Shah last month, the former Respect MP vowed to challenge the result in court, saying: “It has come to my notice that there has been widespread malpractice in this election, particularly over postal voting. We are in the process of compiling the information which will form part of our petition to have the result set aside.”
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In an interview last Thursday, he said: “It is not me who is making that attempt and it is being made and it will be made in the next few hours. An election petition will be launched by citizens in Bradford to do that.”
But under electoral law, anyone seeking to petition a general election result must normally do so within three weeks of the result being announced – a deadline that passed last Friday, 29 May, the day after Galloway made his remarks.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/04/george-galloway-election-defeat-petition-deadline-expiresI'd stay away from courts if I were him:
George Galloway referred to police over parliamentary expenses
A complaint against George Galloway has been passed to the police over allegations that he asked his taxpayer-funded assistant to buy him underpants and sort his laundry.
The former MP for Bradford West was reported to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) earlier this year by his former parliamentary assistant Aisha Ali Khan, who claimed that she spent more time running personal errands for Mr Galloway than on official work.
She alleged that, during her six-month stint as his assistant in 2012, she was required to help plan his wedding, shop for underwear, sort out his laundry, make his breakfast and work for the Viva Palestina charity.
Her lawyers said this amounted to a breach of the requirement to use funds for parliamentary purposes. Mr Galloway, 60, denies the allegations. Following an assessment of the claims, Peter Davis, Ipsa’s compliance officer, has passed on the case to the Metropolitan Police.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/predictions/politics/11616919/George-Galloway-referred-to-police-over-parliamentary-expenses.htmlGeorge Galloway reported to police after 'breaking law with tweet about exit polls'
George Galloway has been reported to the police after allegedly reposting a message on Twitter about an exit poll before voting had finished, it has been reported.
The Respect candidate for Bradford West may have contravened the law preventing the early publication of exit polls after retweeting a message regarding early exit polls from the constituency.
The tweet was later deleted from Mr Galloway's account, while the account it was originally posted from also appeared to have been taken down.
Suzan Hemingway, acting returning officer, said: "We have reported a tweet by George Galloway to the police who are dealing with the issue."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-did-george-galloway-break-the-law-with-tweet-about-exit-polls-10234196.htmlElection 2015: George Galloway broke election law, Labour claims
Labour has accused George Galloway of breaching election law by making false statements about its candidate in the Bradford West seat he's defending.
At a hustings, the Respect candidate had produced what he said was a wedding certificate proving Naz Shah had not, as claimed, been forced to marry at 15.
Mr Galloway was challenging Mrs Shah's account of being forced to wed in Pakistan, published in an open letter.
Labour says her original certificate proves she was a minor at the time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32259901
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