[blml] Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Richard Hills:

>>insurance against them forgetting the complexities of their
>>own wacky agreements by permitting pard to AI remind them.

Steve Willner:

>Again I ask, why is this a bad thing?  Or rather, why is it
>worse than the present situation?

Richard Hills:

I prefer the present situation of "user pays" for paying the
cost of insurance against the complexities of their own wacky
agreements.  I can see no reason for shifting the cost of
insurance premiums to the bystander opponents.  It seems to
me that a fundamental part of the nature of expert bridge is
a good memory; why should part of the cost of an expert's
failures of memory be outsourced to the other side?

Steve Willner:

[snip]

>Finally, if a score adjustment is needed, the TD will have
>to invent some fantasy bidding system.  These are real
>problems.

Richard Hills:

Merely because an equitable ruling may be difficult for a TD
to judge is not a sufficient reason to change the Lawbook
away from "user pays" equity.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
National Training Branch, DIAC
02 6223 9052

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