Subject(s): Corporate meetings -- Law and legislation -- Local government -- Parliamentary practice -- Public meetings -- Constitution and conduct of meetings, validity of meetings, procedure at meetings- defamatory statements, rules in debate, committee systems, conduct of meetings and principles of natural justice -- Meetings of companies, meetings of members- kind of meetings, motions, resolutions and minutes, constitution and conduct of meetings, procedure at general meetings, company meetings, formality informality and fiction -- Meetings of directors : Appointment, qualification and removal, powers and duties, constitution and conduct of meetings, procedure at board meetings -- Winding up : Meetings of members in members voluntary winding up, winding up under supervision -- Meetings of local authorities : Structure of local government after 1974, parish and community councils/meetings -- Admission of public and press to meetings of local authorities : Public meeting act 1980, defamation act 1952- schedule, public order act 1963, race reflection act 1965