Dorking owner Marc White has said that according to legal advice the club has received, the recent National League voting process was 'unlawful'. The result of the vote means that the seasons in both National North and National South have been declared 'null and void'.
"We deployed a top QC to look at it," said White.
“We have made representation to the National League and FA as to why we believe that a significant amount of the process was unlawful.
“We need to be fair to the National League to give them time to respond.
“But, this is the opinion of our QC, (that) Resolution 1 was unlawful in that they were written Resolutions which meant that voting couldn’t be through the constitutional layout, it had to be a vote per team.
“But secondly, in the unlikely event that Resolution 1 was correct, the advice we’ve been given is that the null and voiding of the divisions could only be done by the means of a Special Resolution itself as it’s an adjustment and change to the rules of the league.
“Therefore, that would need to be laid out as a Special Resolution with a 75 per cent majority, but it was put as an ordinary Resolution at 50 per cent (majority).
“56 per cent (of Step 2 clubs) voted for the divisions to finish and the advice we’ve got that is that it’s a rule change, denoted by the fact that it requires FA approval, and as such, that requires a Special Resolution as per the rules of the National League.
“That is flawed as well, on the advice we’ve been given.
“Thirdly, is that, as per the articles of the National League, the null and void (decision) cannot be declared unless it is ratified (by the FA).
“The league should still be playing and it should not be stopped until it (the decision) has been ratified.
"What the group of clubs (that wish to continue) are asking for is the league to be restarted with immediate effect today.”
Dorking are in the National South League.