@ICWilson said:
Please can someone help: is there any legislation which allows the Executive Committee to ban the recording of their EC Meetings?With our new Executive Committee the first thing the Chairperson says when opening the meeting is: “all mobile phones and recording equipment must be switched off”. This is also now noted in all EC Minutes.
Allowed or not?
Thanks
There is a recent court case involving a joint venture between a public company and a private company it is Alliance Craton Explorer Pty Ltd V Quasar Resources Ltd 2010.
In that case the judge decided that it was not unlawful for the meeting to be recorded but also decided that it was within the power of the chair and the meeting itself to decide whether a recording was permissible.
This was a South Australian case and the closest authority to the issue you raise. The ruling, that because the chariman said there was to be no recording of meetings. is in line with what Whale says.