PLA 2026
Annual General Meeting
19 November 2026 at 5.45pm at
Merchant Taylors’ Hall, 30 Threadneedle St, London EC2R 8JB
Please see the Notice of General Meeting below, including details of Officers and Committee members standing for election.
We hope as many members as possible will attend the meeting which will take place just before the Annual Dinner on 19 November 2026. All members are welcome and encouraged to attend, whether or not they are attending the Dinner.
To download a proxy Voting Form click here
THE COMPANIES ACTS 1985 TO 2006
PRIVATE COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL
Property Litigation Association (the “Company”)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a General Meeting of the Company will be held at
The Merchant Taylors’ Hall, 30 Threadneedle St, London EC2R 8JB on Thursday 19 November 2026 at 5.45pm for the purpose of transacting the following business:
1 To receive reports from:
The Chair
The Treasurer
The Law Reform Committee
The Education and Training Committee
The Website and Marketing Committee
The Regions Committee
The Junior PLA Committee
The Wellbeing Committee
The EDI Committee
2 To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following resolutions as Ordinary Resolutions of the Company:
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
No 1: That the accounts of the Company for the financial year ended 31 August 2026 be approved by the Members. To download a copy of the unaudited accounts click here
No. 2: That as the Company is entitled to exemption from audit the appointment of Auditors is not required in accordance with Section 477(1) of the Companies Act 2006 (the "Act") and that the Members confirm that there is no requirement to obtain an Audit in accordance with Section 476 of the Act.
No.3: That the following persons be elected as Officers and Members of the Committee as the case may be:
Chair: Paul Barker
Vice Chair: Paul Tonkin
Hon Treasurer: Anna Iceton
Hon Secretary: Lindsey Whittle
Chair of Law Reform: Paul Tonkin
Chair of Education and Training: James Teagle
Chair of Regions: Matt Pugh
Chair of Website and Marketing: Isabel Emerson-Lich
Chair of Junior PLA: Perry Swanson
Chair of Wellbeing: Lucie Barnes
Chair of EDI: Vanessa Joll
Dated: 2 November 2026
Registered office: c/o Dentons Secretaries Limited, One Fleet Place, London EC4M 7WS
Notes:
A Member entitled to attend and vote at the Meeting convened by the above Notice shall be entitled to appoint a proxy to attend, speak and vote in their place. You can only appoint a proxy using the proceedings set out in these notes and the notes to the proxy form.
The appointment of a proxy will not prevent a member from subsequently attending and voting at the meeting, in which case any votes cast by the proxy will be excluded and your proxy appointment will automatically be terminated.
A proxy form can be downloaded here. To appoint a proxy, using the proxy form, the form must be:
- Completed and signed;
- Sent or delivered to the Company at its registered office; and
- Received by the Company no later than 5.45pm on Tuesday 17 November 2026.
Any power of attorney or any other authority under which the proxy form is signed (or a duly certificated copy of such power or authority) must be included with the proxy form.
To be effective the instrument appointing a proxy, and (failing prior registration) any letter or power of attorney under which it is executed (or a duly certificated copy thereof) must be sent or delivered to the Company’s registered office (for the attention of Dentons Secretaries Limited) not less than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting or (in the case of a poll taken otherwise than at or on the same date as the meeting or adjourned meeting) for the taking of the poll at which it is to be used, provided that a proxy and any such power or authority in respect of a poll to be taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or the adjourned meeting, but less than 48 hours thereafter, may be delivered to the Chair of the meeting at any time before the poll is taken.