Agenda and minutes

Venue: Committee Rooms, 2nd Floor, West Wing, Guildhall

Contact: Gemma Stokley  Email: gemma.stokley@cityoflondon.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

1.

Question - That the Minutes of the last Court are correctly recorded? pdf icon PDF 232 KB

Minutes:

Resolved: - That the minutes of the Court of Aldermen held on 21st March 2023 were correctly recorded.

 

 

[The minutes of the Court of Common Council were on the table.]

 

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2.

Resolutions on retirements, Congratulatory Resolutions, Memorials etc.

Minutes:

There were no resolutions.

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3.

Applications for the Freedom of the City pdf icon PDF 147 KB

Minutes:

The Chamberlain presented the names of two hundred and nine persons to be made free of this City, and it is Ordered that they be admitted into the Freedom of this City accordingly, as follows:-

            Name:                               Occupation:                     Address:                          Company:

Jayne Victoria Abel

an Optometrist and Eyewear Company Chief Executive

 

Hagley, Worcestershire

Spectacle Makers

Jane Alison Adam

a Jewellery Designer

 

Teddington, Middlesex

Goldsmiths

Asif Ahmed

a Chartered Accountant

Aldenham, Hertfordshire

 

Chartered Accountants

Ahmed Rufai Abiodun Ajala

 

a Finance Director

Westminster, London

Fletchers

Shruti Ajitsaria

a Lawyer

Hampstead, London

 

Haberdashers

Ali Burak Akdemir

a Ship Owner

 

Nine Elms, London

Shipwrights

Kirsty Amanda Akroyd-Wallis

a Systems Engineer

Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire

 

Engineers

Professor Peter Anthony Allen

 

an Academic

Bristol

Woolmen

Elizabeth Margaret Anderson

a Charity Chief Operating Officer

Longfield, Kent

Chartered Secretaries & Administrators

 

Alice Marguerite Archer

a Wine Company Sales Manager

 

Holt, Norfolk

Vintners

Stuart Barber

a Gunmaker

Kingswood, Surrey

Gunmakers

 

Dr Sarah Helen Barker

 

a Dentist

Dorchester, Dorset

Broderers

Briony Anne Courtenay Barnett

 

a Casting Director

Brent, London

Merchant Taylors

Simon Gregory Barrell

a Chartered Accountant

 

Warlingham, Surrey

Carmen

Jodi Lynn Bartin

a Corporate Finance Company Chief Executive

 

Fleet, Hampshire

Information Technologists

Michael Sudagar Basi

a Wealth Management Company Director

 

Brentwood, Essex

Fan Makers

Dr Wolfgang-Andreas Christian Bauer

 

a Fund Manager

Wimbledon, London

Salters

Kuljit Singh Bawa

a Software Company Regional Managing Director

 

Chesham, Buckinghamshire

Fan Makers

John Andrew Beckner

an Aerospace Company Chief Executive

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Coachmakers & Coach Harness Makers

Ashley Christopher Hodsoll Behagg

a Farmer

Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

 

Farmers

Christopher Lawrence Bell

a Sea-Going Engineer, retired

Bradford On Avon, Wiltshire

 

Stationers & Newspaper Makers

 

Michelle Alexis Boothroyd

a Property Company Chief People Officer

 

Oxshott, Surrey

Human Resource Professionals

James Richard Bore

a Security Consultancy Director

 

Stanmore, London

Security Professionals

Helen Katharine Botfield

a Public Relations Consultant

 

Ealing, London

Glovers

Christian Dominic

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4.

Applications of the following to be recorded as a Freeman of the City, and in the Company Named:

Name                                                       Company

Judy Hadden                                            Entrepreneurs

Mark Norman Huxley                                 Entrepreneurs         

Philippa Tamsin Watmough                       Entrepreneurs

 

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Minutes:

Application of the following to be recorded as a Freeman of the City in the Company named:-

 

Name                                                  Company

Judy Hadden                                      Entrepreneurs

Mark Norman Huxley                          Entrepreneurs

Philippa Tamsin Watmough               Entrepreneurs

 

Read and Agreed to.

 

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5.

Report: General Purposes Committee of Aldermen

Minutes:

 

Petition of the Company of Nurses for Company with Livery Status

A recommendation of the General Purposes Committee recommending that the

Company of Nurses be constituted a Livery Company of the City of London

and that the prayer of the Petition be complied with, was put, on the following conditions:

• That the number of the Livery should not exceed 250;

• That the fine for admission to the Livery should be not less than £400; and

• That no person shall be admitted to the Livery of the Company unless he or she

First produces his or her copy of the freedom of the City of London.

 

That as the proposed Constitution and Ordinances conform to the law and custom of the City, the Company of Nurses be constituted a Livery Company of the City with the title “The Worshipful Company of Nurses,” that the formal grant be embodied in Letters Patent under the Mayoralty Seal and that the proposed Constitution and Ordinances be approved and enrolled among the records of the Court of Aldermen as the 111th Livery Company of the City.

 

Resolved – That the recommendation be agreed to.

 

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6.

Report: Action Taken since the Court's Last Meeting pdf icon PDF 115 KB

To receive a report of action taken by the Court of Aldermen in accordance with the Court’s urgency procedures (Standing Order No. 46) since it last meeting on 21st March 2023.

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Minutes:

A report of action taken by the Court of Aldermen in accordance with

the Court’s urgency procedures (Standing Order No. 46) since its last meeting on

21st March 2023 relating to both the appointment of a Secondary and applications for the Freedom of the City (in the companies named )was RECEIVED.

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7.

Urgent Item - Letter

Minutes:

With the leave of the Court, the Town Clerk presented an additional item of business, notice of which did not appear on the agenda, and lay before the Court a letter of surrender of office from Alderman Ian Luder offering to surrender his Office of Alderman of the Ward of Castle Baynard.

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