AGM motion seeks to petition the Queen to reject the Council's proposed new Charter
A motion to be presented at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s 2004 annual general meeting seeks the meeting’s approval for a petition to the Queen asking her to reject the Council’s petition for a new Charter and any other petitions submitted without the consent of the Society’s members.
The motion, to be moved by Mark Walker, includes the full text of the
proposed petition (Official Notice, p491).
The AGM takes place on the evening of Wednesday 12 May, less than a week
before the date set for a High Court hearing of an application for summary
judgment of the Council’s Charter petition claim. The claim has
been listed for hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice, London, on Tuesday
18 May, continuing on the following day if necessary (PJ, 13 March, p305).
The action has been brought by the Save Our Society group against the
16 members of Council who voted in support of petitioning for a new Royal
Charter plus the Society itself.
As The Journal went to press on 14 April, no other motions had been received
for debate at the AGM.
Apart from debate on motions, the main purposes of the Society’s
annual general meeting are to present to the members the Council’s
annual review and financial statements for the previous calendar year
and to report on any revisions to the Code of Ethics and Council Statements
on ethical matters issued since the previous year’s AGM. (Copies
of the annual review for 2003 are to be sent to all members before the
meeting and the full financial statements are being placed on the Society’s
website — see
here.)
The formal business of the AGM will be preceded by the presentation of
fellowship certificates and the Society’s Charter gold and silver
medals.
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