Sian
Unfortunately this is the sort of thing that happens when members are disinterested in something like the CPSA. There are usually those that will use such disinterest to advantage.
It is quite usual for pressure groups, in the know, to start small and either they will grow or wither on the vine depending on whether they try to grow or whether there is insufficient interest, enthusiasm, money or time for a fight.
I would have thought that the CPSA have upset enough regions by now for the issues to have become reasonably widely known and discussed at grounds, county and regional meetings and on fora such as this. In that light it seems we are happy at what is being done in our name. Nice to see that a shooting journal has now come out openly to be critical of what has happened. That will spread the word some more.
I agree that whether a director is deemed to have been elected if he has stood unopposed or not and whether he should then become chairman or not having previously been outvoted is a technical legal subject but the record of the hearing and appeal must strike you as unfair.