From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Mon Aug 14 21:53:49 2000 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e7EKpEM24717 for britdisc-outgoing; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:51:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7EKpDO24709 for <britdisc-real@pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:51:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from bart.callnet0800.com (bart.callnet0800.com [212.67.128.108]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7EKov809898 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:50:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp.callnet0800.com [212.67.128.145] by bart.callnet0800.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id AC3544F70106; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:53:09 +0100 Received: from ben [212.67.150.43] by smtp.callnet0800.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id ABA6139301EE; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:50:46 +0100 Message-ID: <031e01c00631$954a1bc0$2b9643d4@ben> From: "Ben Ravilious" <ben@ravilious.net> To: "BRITDISC" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Advice needed Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:51:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Folks, I have completed the majority of the work for the British Ultimate Association proposal but still need some help with one major aspect. I expect there might be a free year's membership available for someone willing to contribute their time! I need someone (perhaps a lawyer?) who understands constitutions and democracy for organisations like ours. Essentially, I want to know the best way to enable one-member one-vote elections without requiring the whole country to attend the AGM. I realise this requires some sort of proxy system but I need some more solid pointers on rewriting the constitution to acheive this. I also need to know if there are any significant constitutional changes required under English law in relation to employing staff. I know what is required of us from a tax/NI point of view but I just want to get the legal side up to scratch. Please contact me if you have any ideas or know anyone who could help me out. Cheers Ben