[blml] claim

[Tim West-Meads]

> Exactly what "evidence" makes you convinced declarer is aware that 
> the ST has not been discarded and is still out?

Perhaps the fact that I started my example with: Ok, consider for a 
moment that claimer said "OK, the ST will drop now".

As to what evidence *would* convince me, I don't know exactly.  I will 
merely here the words and tone of voice used by all the players 
describing what happened - both prior to and after the claim, I will 
hear the different version of what claimer thought he said and what opps 
thought he said.  Having heard that evidence I may still have doubts, or 
I may not have.  But actually hearing the evidence is important.

> IMO you give too much allowance to the claimer.

My legal obligation is to find equity.  Until I hear the evidence I 
don't know whether I'm dealing with a careless claimer trying to recover 
a trick he might not have deserved or with a skanky cheat who has picked 
up on a slightly mispoken word in the claim and is trying to con the TD 
into giving him a trick he would never have made in a million years 
(usually it's something in between).   And here's the funny thing - 
unless *you* hear the evidence *you* won't know either.

Tim