Issue - meetings

To seek delegated authority for the Monitoring Officer to indemnify a Member in the event the Council requires a Member to bring a Judicial Review against a decision of the Council.

Council received a report from the Chief Legal Officer seeking delegated authority for the Monitoring Officer to indemnify a Member in the event the Council requires a Member to bring a Judicial Review against a decision of the Council.

Councillor Eber Kington MOVED the recommendation in the report.

Councillor Colin Keane SECONDED the recommendation in the report.

Upon being put the recommendation was CARRIED with a majority vote in favour.

Accordingly, it was resolved:

(1)      That any Member asked to bring a judicial review on behalf of the Council by the Council’s Monitoring Officer be indemnified in respect of liabilities arising during the course of any such legal action and the granting of such indemnity be delegated to the Council’s Monitoring Officer.