If you were/are in the Sydenham (Melbourne/Victoria) congo you may be very familiar with this a few years back. A prominent elder who likes the sound of his own voice (hint, his initials are William Saad) yes of quite a well connected family, was on a judicial committee who was disfellowshiping one of his own male relatives for repeated marijuana usage.
This story by the way shows how corrupt the whole system is. As Williams family (elders and c/o) had covered up the previous few sorrid outcomes of his drug usage, they couldn't contain the last public viewing of his drug dependency, witnessed by many witnesses ironically... So they held a JC to disfellowship him. His outcome was determined even before the JC as William announced to those that worked with him (elders and ms, yes I was one of them, and I don't care if that gives away who I am William) that they were going to disfellowship him even before they sat down with him (so much for fair trial and relying on the big J spirit).
But before they announced it, they organised (yes William Saad was one of the organisers) a huge family farewell dinner - over 100 of the close Saad/Sadi family in attendance in western Melbourne, all knew he was going to be disfellowshipped in the coming week. Multiple elders and one c/o in attendance. When questioned by one ms as to the appropriateness of such a farewell d/f dinner, William said that's how middle eastern families are, they knew it would be 12 months before they could associate together again with him...
So they held a feast in his pre-disfellowshipping honour....
PS - it was also because of William Saad I discovered this website.... He was the elder who left JWN open on his office computer one day... when asked about it, he mentioned (as an ex bethelite) that him and a few of his bethel mate elders monitored and reported back to his brother in law c/o about what they picked up. That and the fact he was suspicious of someone in Glenroy cong who was posting on this site - and has since left!
So many stories to tell....