Adam Walker, the party organiser, now has to pay over £21,000 of his own money to Mark Collett, the party’s former graphic designer, after the BNP reneged on a written agreement that Walker had signed in his capacity as party manager. (Mark Collett you may remember had been peremptorily dismissed after Griffin falsely accused Collett of a plot to kill him)
Walker tried to argue in court that under the BNP's constitution the party did not exist as a legal entity but that its chairman was the “final determinator” and so was the only person liable for the party’s debts. Durham County Court dismissed that claim because the BNP’s constitution expressly states that no individual can act as agent for the party meaning that anyone who enters into any contract acts as principal, making them personally liable to meet its obligations.
This means that by signing a contract, believing it to be on behalf of the BNP in his capacity as Party Organiser, Walker was actually making himself liable for the payment, which Griffin knew the party would never make. Walker said afterwards he would do his utmost to comply with the judgement which awarded Collett £14,250 plus £7,333.60 costs against Walker.
Almost immediately after the judgement one BNP officer resigned from his position.
The Judgement means that BNP Party organisers and fund-holders (the BNP’s term for treasurers) are right to worry that they might be held liable for unpaid bills for goods and services supplied to the party, and not only if they signed a document without understanding it like Walker. Under English law a contract does not have to be written, anyone who dealt with a supplier to the party, even only verbally, could end up in the same position.
Quelle surprise 
