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From: "Rich Mellor" <r...@rwapservices.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 8:45 PM
To: <ql-us...@q-v-d.com>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Finally a reply
On 29/01/2011 12:54, Geoff Wicks wrote:
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From: "Rich Mellor" <r...@rwapservices.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 10:05 PM
To: <ql-us...@q-v-d.com>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Finally a reply
Actually, I disagree and this is where the constitution is badly worded -
ordinary members is also used to describe members of Quanta, not just the
committee and I would therefore interpret this clause to mean that the
Committee can fill vacancies by [co-opting members of Quanta] to the
Committee - ordinary members is used in clause 4.1 to refer to the
membership of Quanta (or are you suggesting that only the spouse of
officers could ever be an associate member?
In fact the wording of clause 5.0 uses the term 'other members' to refer
to the members of the committee who are not officers - nowhere is the term
'ordinary members' used in this sense.
- It's discussions like this that I used to love when I was a solicitor
and/or company secretary - invariably the person asking the question never
wants to hear the official answer which always has to be "well it CAN be
interpreted as...." - nothing is ever definite when it comes to the law,
that's why in pages of legal documentation, you never see full stops,
commas, or semicolons - it leaves it more open to interpretation - and
more money for the solicitors!
Actually Rich we are not in such disagreement. Your original reply jogged my
memory and when I posted the interpretation of the constitution last year I
stumbled over that point. Did "ordinary member" mean an ordinary member of
the committee or a non-committee member? In fact I asked a series of
questions that the committee should look at for clarification thinking that
if they could do that in advance it would make it easier to avoid problems
by any co-option.
Thank god this discussion is now becoming serious and tackling issues that
it should do.
A lot of people think law in black and white, but it is more shades of grey
than anything else and that is how lawyers become rich,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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