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Parry J. that the expression "quorum is to be present when the meeting is to proceed business" would cover cases where the meeting proceeded to vote because, on the face of it, the condition of the Article is fulfilled if the quorum was present when a meeting proceeded to consider business for which it was convened. If there was no such quorum there would be an automatic adjournment for one week, then the members present would form a quorum. Consequently, it was observed that such an article was designed to save a meeting which was properly convened, but which could not proceed to business because no quorum was ever present, but it did This Order is modified/corrected by Speaking to Minutes Order 11 NM.3701.09-S.2429.97-ORDER.sxw not apply in a case of a meeting at which a quorum is present at the beginning when the meeting proceeds to business and has ceased to be present when it proceeds to vote on any resolution before it. Upon observing such a mandate in the Articles of Association of the Company and in the Scottish case the learned Judge nevertheless concluded upon the facts of the case before him that when the member opposing the resolution left the meeting before the vote was taken, the meeting in fact passed a valid class resolution because at the beginning of the meeting when it proceeded to business the quorum was present.