Ex-President elect resigns from NAEA

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The agent who was due to have been NAEA President last year has resigned from the Association.

Chris Wood, a Cornish agent, was president-elect until shortly before he was due to have taken office, when a disciplinary hearing found against him.

Wood has been fighting since to clear his name, claiming that a disciplinary hearing should not have been held into a matter where legal proceedings had commenced – and where he has always protested his innocence.

He claims the NAEA broke its own rules.

But, after a lengthy correspondence going back months, Wood wrote an open letter to NAEA chief executive Peter Bolton King, its divisional council and the board of NFoPP.

In the letter, he makes various highly damaging allegations about the culture at the NAEA.

He says that after 20 years of membership, he has lost faith in the association, and no longer wishes to be a part of it.

The letter was copied in to the trade press editors, in an echo of ex-NAEA president Stewart Lilley’s resignation from the NFoPP board.

In response, the NAEA said: “Following a disciplinary hearing, which found Chris Wood guilty of a breach of the Association’s rules, he was suspended from membership for a period of six months.

"Mr Wood subsequently challenged this decision and the matter is now in the hands of the Association’s solicitors. As a result, we can make no further comment.”


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