{"id":12466,"date":"2019-06-29T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T04:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/?p=12466"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T07:48:37","slug":"disciplinary-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/disciplinary-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Disciplinary Committee Established"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board has established a Disciplinary Committee to hear complaints regarding member behaviour.&nbsp;Obviously, we expect the process to be little used, but it is important to have a process in place in the event that incidents arise. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Members will be familiar with tribunal hearings such as occur in most sports.&nbsp; The arrangements adopted by golf clubs differ in that they are internally focussed, but they must provide proper procedures and transparency which are fair for all parties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our new By-Laws and the guidelines provided to the Disciplinary Committee, recognise the essential requirements of procedural fairness (or \u201cnatural justice\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The members of the Disciplinary Committee will not be board members but will be appointed by the Board, recognising the necessary golf and other qualifications and experience required.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in understanding the details of the changes, we have attached the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/svgcdisputessumm2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summary explanation&nbsp;<\/a>of the procedures;<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/svgcbylaws-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amendments to the Club By-Laws<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Disciplinary-hearing-process.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> flowchart<\/a> explaining the steps, and<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/svgcdcguide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guidelines for the Disciplinary Committee<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The copy of the By-Laws provided in the Club Documents section of the website will incorporate these changes after some other unrelated and outdated provisions are reviewed and amended.<\/p>\n<p>While the changes to establish a Disciplinary Committee will operate immediately, there will be amendments proposed at the AGM in October to clarify the operation of these changes in the Constitution. &nbsp;These changes require a special resolution of members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board has established a Disciplinary Committee to hear complaints regarding member behaviour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25426,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions\/25426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springvalleygolf.com.au\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}