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The rumour mill grinds out that the decision of the Licensing Committee to introduce black cars and age limits was taken by a committee of 3 with the voting of 2 for and 1 against, surely a decision of this magnitude affecting so many liveliehoods should have warranted more discussion and does not the word quorum mean at least 4 as in quartet

In law, a quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative body necessary to conduct the business of that group. Ordinarily, this is a majority of the people expected to be there, although many bodies may have a lower or higher quorum. Obviously if only one person turned up for a meeting he/she could pass any directive unopposed.

DAP

I think the quorum could be any specified number.

Words like quartet and quarter do come from the latin quarto (fourth).

Quorum is also from latin but means 'of whom'.

For example, quorum vos...duos volumus - of whom we wish that you be ...two.

I'm surprised you didn't know that mr thinker.

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Taxi Driver Online
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OK, so I looked it up

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Taxi Driver Online
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I thought quorum was that dodgy "meat" that veggies eat...

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Former taxi driver

quorum
noun [S] FORMAL
the smallest number of people needed to be present at a meeting before it can officially begin and before official decisions can be taken

quorate
adjective FORMAL
having the necessary number of people present for decisions to be allowed to be made:
a quorate meeting

Members of the group would decide this number, 12 - 20 - 200, depending on the size of the group/organisation, to allow urgent decisions to be reached should the usual membership numbers be unable to attend. Usually the Chair or/and the Secretary have to be in attendance. Where this number of attendance is not reached then no decisions can be reached and the meeting has to be concluded before it can start.
The 'Quorum' is normally set to determine good and proper debate but this can be manipulated.

p.s. It's not law, more a common sense policy agreement, though legally binding if the truth ever emerges from inquorate meetings.

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The Seventh Saint

well York taxi drivers, these are the people who voted on the council
only three people attended the meeting, chair and two others, would that be a quorum

click on attendance details, each councillor's name, click, register of interest, who attended, two are retired , the other sells on Ebay

http://democracy.york.gov.uk/ieListDocu ... 2962&Ver=4