Alec Douglas-Home's election was alleged to be void on the ground that he had participated in a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Conservative Party and had not declared the cost of this expenditure within his election expenses. Held: no offence had been committed either by the candidate, the BBC or the IBA. The reason for this is that the court accepted that the intention behind the broadcast was not to promote the candidature of Douglas Home in his own constituency but o provide general information about the Party to the general public.