Agenda and minutes

To appoint a Chairman for the purposes of this meeting.

RESOLVED:  That Councillor Marilyn Ashton be appointed Chairman of the Personnel Appeals Panel.

To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary or non pecuniary interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from all Members of the Panel.

RESOLVED:  To note that the following interest was declared:

Agenda Item 5 – Disciplinary Hearing

Councillor Graham Henson declared a personal interest in that he belonged to the same medical centre and had the same doctor as the appellant.  He would remain in the room whilst the matter was considered and voted upon.

[Note:  Personnel Appeals Panel minutes are:-

(1)               approved following each meeting by the Members serving on that particular occasion and signed as a correct record by the Chairman for that meeting;

(2)               not submitted to the next panel meeting for approval.

Reasons: The Personnel Appeals Panel is constituted from a pooled membership.  Consequently, a subsequent Panel meeting is likely to comprise a different Chairman and Members who took no part in the previous meeting’s proceedings.  The process referred to at (1) above provides appropriate approval scrutiny].

(See Note at conclusion of these minutes).

To resolve that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business, on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of confidential information in breach of an obligation of confidence, or of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972:

RESOLVED:  That in accordance with Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) for the reasons set out below:

(i) Procedure for Hearing & Conduct Procedure (pages 1 - 8)

(ii) Appellant’s Case Statement (pages  - )

(iii) Management’s Case Statement (pages  - )

? Appendix 1 (pages)

? Appendix 2 (pages)

? Appendix 3 (page)

? Appendix 4 (page)

? Appendix 5 (pages)

? Appendix 6 (pages)

The Panel carefully considered both the written and verbal evidence provided by the appellant’s representative and management.

RESOLVED:  That the appeal be dismissed.