AGM of the In-House Lawyers Group
AGM/SYMPOSIUM AND DINNER 2008
21 NOVEMBER 2008, THE HUB, EDINBURGH
We are delighted that Jane Irvine, Chairman of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, will be giving The Keynote Address this year.
Symposium topics are:
~ Beating the Credit Crunch: Outsourcing - Yvonne Dunn, Pinsent Masons;
~ Key IP and Information Law Developments in 2008 - Grant Campbell, Brodies;
~ Employment Status and Agency Workers - Sheila Gunn, Shepherd and Wedderburn
~ State Aid - Duncan Gillespie and Hazel Moffat, DLA Piper;
~ Procurement Disputes - avoiding pitfalls and resolving challenges - Colin Hutton
and Graeme Young, Dundas & Wilson.
Lord Hodge will be our After Dinner Speaker.
The brochure and registration form has been circulated to members. A copy is attached here. As we were fully subscribed last year, early booking would be advisable!
If any member wishes a matter to be raised at the forthcoming AGM, please advise the Group Secretary.
Nominations of Ordinary Members of the Group to fill a vacancy on the Committee must reach the Secretary of the Group not less than twenty-eight days before the date of the relevant Annual General Meeting and each nomination must be signed by a proposer and seconder, and by the nominee, all being current Members of the Group. If any member wishes to join the Committee, please complete and return a Nomination Form to the Group Secretary.
AGM FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2007
If you were unable to attend, you may wish to see the Chairman's Report and the President's Address.
THE CONSTITUTION states:
(a) The Annual General Meeting shall be held annually on a date and at a time and place to be determined by the Committee who shall give at least six weeks notice thereof by such means as the Committee shall decide.
(b) The business of the Annual General Meeting shall consist of -
(i) the reception of the Chairman’s Report on the previous year’s activities of the Group;
(ii) the consideration and approval of the Accounts of the Group;
(iii) the report by the Chairman of the election of Members to the Committee;
(iv) any other business of which notice may have been given or which may be permitted to be raised without notice;
(v) any matter relating to the business of the Group specified in a requisition made by not less than 10 Members of the Group and received by the Secretary not less than 28 days before the meeting provided that the Chairman may allow any matter to be raised at the Annual General Meeting without such previous written notice as aforesaid.
(c) The Chairman of the Committee shall act as Chairman of the Annual General Meeting, failing whom the Vice-Chairman whom failing any Member of the Committee elected to the Chair by the Ordinary Members of the Group present at the Annual General Meeting. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution all decisions shall be taken by a majority vote of the Ordinary Members present at the meeting and in the event of equality the Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
