[blml] Réf. : Re: Belgian TD exam questio n [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 14:48 9/11/2006 -0500, Ed Reppert wrote:

>On Nov 9, 2006, at 4:51 AM, Alain Gottcheiner wrote:
>
> > The Laws and their application use the principle that
> > - either you prove that the player cheats, and expel him ;
> > - or you start with the principle that he doesn't, and that every
> > error will be either inadvertent or a miscomprehension of the Laws.
> >
>
>Then what is the point of the "could have known" provision in several
>laws?

According to my teacher, it allows us to say to the offender :

"if you were a cheat, you'd have acted in the same way and that's the 
penalty for it ; we assume you aren't but, since you did the same, the 
penalty would be the same, except that no disciplinary action is needed ... 
this time"