2.8 Minutes and Certification of Minutes

The meeting's legal memory: the minute-book's duty (the proceedings'-and-resolutions' record; the attendance-and-proxy counts); the minutes' status (the evidence's presumptions — the regularity's prima facie proof; the signed-minutes' authority); the drafting's discipline (the facts- not-flavour: the resolutions'-and-votes' record, not the debate's transcript (the candour-and-liability balance — the shorthand-note practices)); the confirmation-and-signature (the next meeting's approval; the chairman's-and-secretary's signature — the certification); the inspection's rights (the members'-and-the OCR's access); the alteration's bar (the confirmed minutes' immutability save the meeting's own correction); and the minutes-as-defence (the validity's paper armour — the challenge's first documentary battlefield).