HTDBS - FSB Scandal - R Alan Williams Letter 1

The Letter And The Facts

Mr Alan Williams' letter below, affirms that everything is not rosy in the FSB garden. The contents suggest that there should be some concern about the integrity of the FSB's internal disciplinary processes.

To You The Reader

Please read then consider the question posed by the title of this article.

Reader be reminded of the mental and material harm which can be done by justice which is either not done or not seen to have been done? Many recent reversals of injustice testify to the latter observation.

Lichfield
Staffordshire
(full address available but not published)

H G Taylor
Hockley
Birmingham.

17 March, 2000

Dear Hubert

Re The National Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses Ltd.

As mentioned on the telephone I write to draw your attention to a conversation I overheard at the Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Small Businesses Staffs and West Midland Region held on Wednesday 24 November 1999 at The Forte Post House Hotel, Great Barr, Birmingham.

I was invited by the Regional Chairman Mr. Douglas Evans to sit between himself and Mr. David Dexter the Honorary National Secretary from Lincoln. During the evening a gentleman approached Mr. Dexter and said,

'I am here to provide moral support".

I thought this comment strange, but at the time I did not know the gentleman's name.

On Monday 10th January 2000 I attended a pre hearing review of a complaint under the Federation of Small Businesses Disputes and Disciplinary Procedure. The meeting took place in Walsall and the complaint was against the present Staffordshire and West Midland Regional Chairman, Mr. Patrick Powell. At the review meeting I recognised the gentleman who had spoken to Mr. David Dexter at the Annual General Meeting. The gentleman was Mr.THM Walker a solicitor from Lincoln who also acts as a paid Secretary to the Federation of Small Businesses Disputes and Disciplinary Committee.

The apparent relationship between Mr. Dexter and Mr. Walker left me feeling concerned about the integrity of the Federation's Disputes and Disciplinary process, including the recent past case against yourself while you were in office as Regional Secretary. That case appears to have been decided contrary to the overwhelming evidence provided by four independent witnesses of which I was one.

Yours sincerely

(signed copy of letter held)

RA Williams
Member of the Federation of Small Businesses
Recent past Vice Chairman of the Staffs and West Midland Region.

End of Mr R A Williams' letter

Should These Questions Now Be Asked?

THM Walker, lives in Lincolnshire so why did he travel from Lincoln to Birmingham to attend the Staffordshire & West Midlands AGM in order to give David Dexter moral support?

[It should be remembered that David Dexter himself was a Lincoln member and not a Midlands member.]
Was THM Walker on official duty?
Was THM Walker paid expenses from FSB funds?
If expenses were paid, who authorised the expenses?
Why did THM Walker need to attend to give moral support to Mr David Dexter?
THM Walker is a solicitor so what happened to professional ethics?
Site Reader, What do you think?

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