Issue - meetings
Annual Report of the Adjudication Panel for Wales for 2018/19
Meeting: 10/05/2021 - Standards Committee (Item 53)
Annual Reports of the Adjudication Panel for Wales for 2018/19 and 2019/20
To receive a verbal update on the Annual Reports of the Adjudication Panel for Wales for 2018/19 and 2019/20
Additional documents:
Decision:
That the update be noted.
Minutes:
The Deputy Monitoring Officer provided a verbal update on the Annual Reports of the Adjudication Panel for Wales (APW) for 2018/19 and 2019/20 and summarised the two statutory roles and composition of the APW.
The Deputy Monitoring Officer advised that during 2018/19 there was one case tribunal which related to Monmouthshire County Council (currently Mathern Community Council) and a telephone conference relating to the same hearing. No appeals were considered by the High Court and there were no formal complaints made against the APW during this period. The Deputy Monitoring Officer referred to the case hearing, the outcome, and the total cost of the tribunal proceedings for 2018/19.
Referring to the Annual Report of the APW for 2019/20, the Deputy Monitoring Officer advised that there were 3 case tribunals resulting from referrals from the Ombudsman. No appeals were considered by the High Court. He reported on the cases determined as summarised in the report. There was also one application to appeal made to the APW in respect of a sanction imposed by the Standards Committee of the relevant authority and the appeal was concluded during the following financial year. In conclusion the Deputy Monitoring Officer referred to the total cost of APW expenditure for 2019/20.
The recommendation was moved by Councillor Arnold Woolley and seconded by Mark Morgan.
RESOLVED:
That the update be noted.