| Topic: | Fourth Letter to Chief Executive's Dept - Application reveals Council's Unsatisfactory Procedures | |
| Posted by: | Victor Mishiku | |
| Date/Time: | 05/04/13 12:19:00 |
| http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14377445/LettertoMikeDavidson_5thApril2013.pdf As can be seen at the above link (PDF file), today I have written a fourth letter to the Chief Executive's Committee Clerks Section regarding what I think is a most unsatisfactory system of posting up incorrect and superseded Minutes though these would appear to any viewer to be the Agreed Minutes as they are appended to postings to the relevant Committee Meeting when the case was decided. In fact, the Minutes displayed in the March 2013 Planning Committee postings area are both incorrect and have no notice to state that they are only "Draft" Minutes and that they are "Subject to Change". People using the Council's Website would be obliged to go on "a paper chase" to see exactly what the real agreed Minutes should say. The Council do not intend to post up that correctly-worded document however so the accuracy of the Minutes depends on how many different Website entries in up to three or more different locations people are prepared (if they are even aware that they need to do this) to trawl through to get to the bottom of the matter! Since the incorrect draft Minutes carry no warning that they are onli in "draft" and may be "Subject to Change", most people, having located what appears to be the Agreed Minutes, would go no further and hence would be using the wrong information! In Court cases or in the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), the Judge or Tribunal Member often releases a draft Judgment and sends it to the parties for any corrections, etc, which when notified are then put into the final version that goes on the record. Sometimes, there is some further text relating to any costs awards. The final version (published on the Web for UTLC cases) then replaces the earlier version. I have asked the Council to consider making the effort to publish - as a composite document - what the Minutes that were agreed should actually say. Victor Mishiku "The Covenant Movement" 5/4/13. |