It was generally agreed that the minutes of previous meetings were insufficiently detailed. *ng* explained that it had taken only a day to read the previous meetings discussion. Issue meeting minutes in several volumes Fruitless discussion

NG complained that several of the discussions in the previous agenda had been conclusive, and generated even more work for the heavily pressed committee members. This was discussed at great length, with the general feeling that the committee was being over-incisive, and inappropriately restricting its potential for reappraisal of decisions, by being too hasty to rush to action.

There was some disagreement, however, and it was generally felt, after a prolonged but fascinating discussion, that no Length of meetings

noted that the previous meeting had been almost entirely completed within a single day. This worrying development had unfairly caused some participants to be expected to do some work suggested that the committee consider the procedural possibilities of having the committee immediately reconvene as soon as it had finished one meeting's business, to bring about an immediate review of progress. Research the historical development of committee procedural best practice.

explained at length that, since there had been only a three-hour gap between the previous meeting and its predecessor, he had been able to produce only a hundred pages of minutes. He realised this was inadequate to sustain a suitably expressive discussion on `accepting the minutes', and resolved to do better in future. Avoid wearisome concision.