[blml] ...have we really come to this??? [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Brian Meadows:

[big snip]

>The bottom line is that the rules of a game
>should be clear and unambiguous.

Richard Hills:

And internally consistent (no penalty card
paradoxes).

Brian Meadows:

>It's lunacy to have one body make the laws
>and other bodies add regulations ..... when
>those regulations can conflict with the laws.

Richard Hills:

It is the conflict which is the lunacy, not
the federal principle of subsidiarity (the
principle which states that matters ought to
be handled by the lowest competent authority).

Grattan Endicott (12th June 2005):

>>+=+ There are now NBOs where under EU law it
>>is possible for an external non-bridge court
>>of arbitration to intervene. Opinion thinks
>>it very likely that a principal concern of
>>such a body might be to investigate whether
>>an authority has exceeded the powers granted
>>to it under the rules of the game. Among the
>>matters which I regard as important in
>>simplifying the Laws of Duplicate Bridge is
>>the use of explicit language, to include
>>unequivocal statements as to the scope and
>>limitations of the powers of regulating
>>authorities, appeals committees and
>>directors, and their accountability for the
>>exercise of those powers.
>>
>>I think also that the letter of the law
>>should embody the spirit of the law.
>>                          ~ Grattan ~   +=+


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
02 6225 6776

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