Agenda item

The Committee considered the issue of whether to discuss the pre-hearing checklist, hearing procedure and associated papers in public or non-public session. After hearing the views of the Comptroller and City Solicitor on the requirement to make all of the papers available for public and press if the meeting was held in public, and the difficulty in properly considering some of the relating matters within a such a format, Members concluded that its discussions on item 5 should be in a non-public session.