ELS DAY CONFERENCE AND AGM AT EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE SATURDAY 3 MARCH 2012
AGM information pack as a single PDF file (10mb).
Comprising:
• AGM agenda
• Minutes of previous AGM
• Chairman’s report
• Receipts and Payments 2010/11, audited
• Revised Constitution and explanatory note (doc1, doc2)
• Report from Editor of the Journal
• A voting paper
• A further copy of the booking form.
If you have any difficulty in printing the documents from the website please contact us.
Timetable
The timetable for the day is as follows:
9.15 Coffee and Registration (Old Library)
10.00-1015 AGM (Lecture theatre, Queen’s Building)
10.15-11.00 John Witte – A North America Perspective (Lecture theatre, Queen’s Building)
11.00-11.45 Silvio Ferrari – A European Perspective (Lecture theatre, Queen’s Building)
Break
12.00 Choral Eucharist (College Chapel)
1.00 Buffet lunch (Old Library)
2.30-3.15 Julian Rivers – A United Kingdom Perspective (Lecture theatre, Queen’s Building)
3.15-4.00 Panel discussion and questions (Lecture theatre, Queen’s Building)
4.00 Tea (Old Library) and departure
There are still some tickets left for those not yet booked but numbers are limited owing to space constraints (a maximum of 120), so it is advisable to book very soon please. I look forward to seeing you there if you can join us.
Notice is hereby given that the Twenty-Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Ecclesiastical Law Society will take place during the Silver Jubilee Day Conference at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on Saturday 3rd March 2012 at 10.00am for the transaction of the following business
Agenda
1. To receive apologies for absence.
2. To approve the Minutes of the Twenty-Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Society held on 10th April 2011 (attached).
3. To receive a report from the Chairman of the Society (attached).
4. To receive a report on the finances of the Society (audited Accounts to 30th June 2011 attached).
5. To elect the Officers of the Society for the ensuing year, viz.:- the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Treasurer. All of these present Officers offer themselves for re-election.
6. To elect three members to the General Committee for an ensuing three-year term. (The Revd & Worshipful Chancellor Rupert Bursell, The Rt Revd the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne & Ross, Paul Colton, The Worshipful Clare Faulds, Mr David Harte and the Revd Thomas Heffer retire by rotation.)
Candidates may be proposed and seconded at the meeting. However, the printed ballot paper will include the names only of those candidates whose nominations are received by the Secretary on or before 27th February 2012. The ballot paper will include blank spaces for electors to write in the names of any additional candidates for whom they wish to vote.
In addition, candidates are invited to produce a short election address (no longer than 300 words on one side of A 4). If the Secretary receives candidates' election addresses by 27th February 2012 these will be copied and given out to members attending with their conference papers. Candidates who produce an election address after this date should bring sufficient copies with them to circulate at the meeting.
7. To agree revised Constitution of the Society and amendments (see attached and explanatory notes).
8. To receive the Editor’s report on the Journal (attached).
9. To consider any other resolution of which the Secretary shall have received written notice at least 14 days before the Meeting.
10. Any other business which the Chairman in his discretion may allow.
11. Dates of ELS meetings in 2012 and 2013:
• 3 March 2012, Day Conference, Emmanuel College Cambridge
• 3 March 2012, 10am, AGM
• 29 May 2012, Lambeth Palace Silver Jubilee event
• 19-21 April 2013, Residential Conference, The Burlington Hotel, Birmingham
• October 2013, The Lyndwood Lecture, hosted by the Canon Law Society
