ICSA: Consultation On Minuting

On 25 May 2016, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (the "ICSA") initiated a consultation on the practice of minuting board meetings.

The ICSA sought respondents' views on:

• what the principal function of minutes should be;
• whether anyone else in addition to, or instead of, the company's secretary should be responsible for the production of minutes;
• what preliminary information and legal boilerplate wording (regarding directors' conflicts of interest, quorum, etc.) should be included in the minutes;
• the style of writing;
• the level of detail included in the minutes;
• the circumstances in which dissenting views should be recorded;
• whether the holding of information board meetings where decisions are actually made should be discouraged;