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I had not read, until today, in detail, the new rules on complaints within the Labour Party. The version published before Conference, well during conference, in the CAC reports were physically very hard to read. The rules are spread over Chapters 1, 2 and 6 and contain significant numbers of cross references, within the chapters and between the chapters. As far as I can tell, here is a flow chart of what I believe to be the process.
The new rules, in Chapter 2, introduced the concept of a prohibited act and codified the prior prohibition of supporting other parties in elections as a proscribed act. There was also an attempt to consolidate a growing body of text dealing with sexual harassment and racist acts. particularly made as an attempt to meet the findings and remediation plan of the EHRC report. I wrote in Dec 2021 that I don’t believe these rules comply with Article 6, the Right to a Fair Trial, of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and also noted the Forde Report’s concerns about ECHR compliance.
Complaints made nationally are assessed, supposedly by LGU, who now need certain levels of training and accreditation to determine if the allegation is about sexual harassment, abuse of…
