[blml] Profit from irregularites

[Grattan Endicott]

from Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Barton" <david.j.barton at lineone.net>
To: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Profit from irregularites
> 
> I am confused here - my usual state of affairs..
> L16C gives the NOS the right to base its calls 
> on withdrawn calls. What we are discussing 
> here is L75A "...AGREEMENTS must arise 
> from the calls...."
> 
> Perhaps an example will make it clearer.
> W    N    E     S
> 1H   2D  X
> At this point N calls for the director and 
> explains that 2D was a mispull.
> The director allows a change of call to 3D 
> and the auction now goes
> W    N    E     S
> 1H   3D  P     P
> 3S
> 
> Now as I understand it (and I probably don't) 
> L16C  gives W the right to base his 3S call on 
> East's withdrawn sputnik double. However 
> L75A does not allow of any agreement that he 
> has done so. So if E now passes they almost 
> certainly have an illegal agreement.
> 
> Have I got this right?
> 
+=+ I believe not. In 75A the words "of the current
deal" are significantly different from "of the legal 
auction". The words in the Law include anything 
outside of the legal auction which is 'authorized' in
the remainder of the laws.
       Your case is removed to a distance from the 
subject of insufficient bids. By which I intend that
the one does not flow automatically into the other 
and inferences from discussion of the one need to 
be tested in their relevance to the other.
      In your example the Director will no doubt be
suspicious that North, hearing the double, wishes 
to pre-empt the auction with his change of bid. He
is no longer able to change it under 25B, so it is 
interesting to see whether the Director will allow
that 2D was 'inadvertent', and whether indeed 
there is judged to have been 'pause for thought'.
                                     ~ Grattan ~   +=+