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Old 18th Apr 2005, 21:01
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I don't believe that members of a club can be liable for debts, acts or omissions of a club commitee.
It depends on whether or not the club is incorporated.

In certain circumstances, a member of an uncorporated association can indeed be held personally liable for the liabilities of that association: which at common law has no legal existance apart from its members, and therefore can neither sue nor be sued in its own right. As such, an unincorporated club is merely an aggregate of individuals, with many characteristics of a business partnership.

In some jurisdictions (particularly individual American states), the common law principle has been modified by legislation intended to protect members of small clubs. To the best of my knowledge this is not currently the case in England and Wales, although I stand to be corrected.
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