SCL Annual General Meeting

Event Details

  • Date: Wednesday 16 October, 2024
  • Time:
  • Price:

NOTICE is hereby given that the forty-ninth Annual General Meeting of the above Company will be held at 14.15 hours on Wednesday 16 October 2024 on Zoom, when the following Ordinary Business will be transacted:-

ORDINARY BUSINESS

  • Apologies for absence
  • To approve the minutes of the forty-eighth Annual General Meeting held on 19 April 2023
  • To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2023
  • To appoint new trustees or re-appoint trustees retiring by rotation.

By order of the Trustee Board
Caroline Gould (Company Secretary)
12 September 2024

NOTES
A member who is entitled to attend and vote at the above-mentioned meeting is entitled to appoint a proxy, who need not be a member of the company, to attend and vote instead of him or her. Links to the minutes of the forty-eighth Annual General Meeting held on 19 April 2023 and the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2023 can be found in the Company information page of this website.

If you would like to attend the AGM, please email hello@scl.org

Caroline Gould
Company Secretary
Society for Computers and Law
Unit 4.5, Paintworks, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS4 3EH, UK.

Appendix 1

Nominations:

Here are the details of the candidates who have been nominated by the present SCL Trustees:

Trustees nominated for re-election:

  • Mark Lumley
  • Dr Katherine (Katia) Ramo

New Trustee:
Sarah Green
Professor Sarah Green was Law Commissioner for Common and Commercial Law at the Law Commission of England and Wales from 2020 to 2024. During that time, her law reform work included the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023, Advice to Government on Smart Contracts, updating the Arbitration Act 1996, scoping reforms to the law on Intermediated Securities, and drafting guidance and a bill to ensure that English law is well-suited to accommodate Digital Assets. In 2023, she won both the International Chamber of Commerce’s Award for the Individual Who Has Made the Greatest Contribution to the Digitalisation of Trade and the Outstanding Achievement Award at the British Legal Technology Awards. In 2022, she was placed on the Women in Fintech Power List and on Bloomberg’s “Who to Watch” Crypto List.

Sarah is now Head of Digital Assets and Trade Finance at D2 Legal Technology, Professor of Private Law at the University of Bristol and a member of T3i Partner Network. Sarah also sits on the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, LawTechUK, The Digital Commonwealth, LegalUK, and the Trade Digitalisation Taskforce, as well as being an advisor to the APPG on Blockchain Technologies.

She was previously Professor of the Law of Obligations at the University of Oxford and a software consultant at Accenture. She has written books and articles on subjects such as blockchain, smart contracts, digital assets and intermediated securities, and her work has been cited extensively in Parliament, across several jurisdictions in appellate courts, and in US Congress.

Statement
I am delighted to be nominated to stand as a Trustee. The SCL is such an invaluable part of the contemporary legal and technological landscape and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to help it flourish even further over the next few years; years that are bound to be as exciting as they are challenging.

Given my recent work in law reform, I would be honoured to serve as a Trustee on the board of SCL: a role in which I can continue to contribute to the ongoing conversations between law and technology.

I very much welcome the opportunity to help the SCL achieve its valuable charitable objectives and to work alongside some of the most talented and dedicated individuals in the sector.

Society for Computers and Law A company limited by guarantee 1133537 Registered Charity No. 266331 VAT Registration No. 115 4840 85 Registered in England and Wales Registered office: Unit 4.5, Paintworks, Arnos Vale, Bristol, BS4 3EH.