[blml] Indemnity

[David Burn]

[KC]

    The Director may award an adjusted score when he judges that these
Laws do not provide indemnity to a non-offending contestant for the
particular type of violation committed by an opponent.

    Webster defines "indemnity" as "security against hurt, 
loss, or damage". 

    So when exactly can the TD wheel out L12A1? 

[DALB]

I don't know. I'd have thought he ought to be able to use it in a case where
a partnership finds a successful defence, that it might otherwise not have
found, because of information arising from some infraction to which L72B1
does not apply. 

There was an example a while back (I don't recall whether it was on this
forum) in which East led a club out of turn. South told West to lead a club,
but West didn't have any clubs. When East won the suit West did lead, he
gave West a club ruff and beat the contract, which he might or might not
have done had the original violation of law not occurred. 

Much waffle took place on the subject of what "arising from" means, most of
it conducted by people whose first language you would expect to be English
until you read the waffle. But the obvious thing to do appeared to me to use
L12A1 to give a score of down one some of the time, making the rest of the
time.

I have no idea why the law says "type of violation" and not simply
"violation".

David Burn
London, England