RLC Matters: Notification of Charge framed by IC on 2nd July 2024

 ..... you used the Infant Feeding Room to conduct an online meeting and/or discussion using a laptop computer.

Further when the Duty Manager advised you that you are not allowed to use the Infant Feeding Room for any other purposes apart from the intended use of infant feeding and suggested that you adjourn to the Garden Cafe .....you refused to heed the request on both occasions.

Your aforesaid conduct constitutes a breach of RULE 18.1 of the Constitutional Rules of the Royal Lake Club which reads:

If the conduct of a member.......is unbecoming.......or is injurious to the interest of the Club ........or if the member is in beach of these Rules, then the member shall be disciplined in accordance with the provisions of this Rule

Please note 

There is no mention in this framed charge which byelaw in the changing room I have breached, which byelaw prohibits the use of the Infant Feeding Room, which byelaw prohibits the use of a laptop, which byelaw says that I must obey the instruction of the staff even when the staff is wrong.

I already explained that a few years ago (2017) in a GC meeting, it was decided that the room can be used by other ladies when it is not used for feeding infants. This is supported by evidence: an email  from the then GM informing me of this, plus the GC Feb 2017 meeting minutes which stated so.

Must members obey the order of the staff when he/she is wrong, and doesn't know the rule? I left the room eventually, so why complained again? 

There is no byelaw prohibiting the use of laptop in the ladies changing room, period. 

This is a spurious charge, period. 

More importantly, GM is a staff and non-member, he  has no constitutional right to file a complaint to ICDC. Only a GC member and other club members can file complaint to ICDC. 

Please go on to read my detailed reply to DC.