I have a friend who's qualified as a barrister who may be interested in
helping out, but he wants to know in more detail what kind of problems you
envisage wanting his help with. (I'm sorry if this was obvious from the
foundation-l discussion, I unsubscribed in despair at the volume of nonsense
that list generates these days.)
Tom
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Dalton
Sent: 07 April 2008 17:33
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Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Proposal for future goal of the chapter
Inspired by the recent legal discussions on foundation-l, I've had an
idea for something the chapter could usefully do. It's not something
we'll be able to do any time soon (it would certainly require a bank
account! [any progress on that recently?]), but I'll probably forget
it, so I'll suggest it now.
We should hire a lawyer. In addition to handling legal stuff for the
chapter they would be able to advise the foundation and appropriate
communities (where practical) on issues of UK law. Currently the
foundation's only legal expert, Mike, is purely a US lawyer and,
AFAIK, has no experience with other jurisdictions. That's not a great
situation for a foundation involved in activities all over world.
Obviously, the WMF cannot hire a lawyer from every country in the
world, but individual chapters can hire lawyers for their country and
offer their services to the foundation. I think doing so would be an
excellent use of chapter funds (once we have some, that is).
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