Agenda item

Joint Report of the Comptroller and City Solicitor and the Chamberlain.

The Committee considered a Joint Report of the Chamberlain and the Comptroller & City Solicitor.

RESOLVED – that the Committee approved the proposal outlined in the report, for onward approval by the Court of Common Council, to indemnify and/or insure Independent persons (through the extension of the Corporation’s Defamation Cover), against awards of damages or expenses incurred arising out of the disclosure of any comments made in good faith

during the exercise of their statutory functions as Independent Persons.