[blml] De Wael School (was ...poll) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Herman De Wael]

richard.hills at immi.gov.au wrote:
> Herman De Wael:
> 
>> Last night, my partner did not alert my 2C, which was check-back.
>> He subsequently bid 2H (my suit) which, by system, shows a minimum
>> hand. I did not alert,
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> Consider what I did not tell them: I did not tell them my partner
>> was limited to 12 points (in fact he did have 14). How would they
>> have felt if I had told them he had 12 points, they had doubled,
>> it would have made, and I would say "aha, but I did not MI you
>> since this IS our system". I still maintain that I am acting as
>> ethical as I can within the laws.
> 
> Richard Hills:
> 
> I do not disagree that Herman is acting within his idiosyncratic
> assessment of ethics.  I merely dispute Herman's assertion that
> his actions are consistent with Law and the Lawful Belgian alert
> regulation (which presumably required that the systemic 2H should
> have been alerted).
> 
> Law 80 gives the Belgian National Bridge Organisation the power to
> create an alert regulation.  Law 81 gives the Director the power to
> interpret Law and regulation.  Law 72A1 requires players (even
> Herman De Wael) to play "in strict accordance with the Laws".
> 
> And, most importantly, Law 72A6 states:
> 
> "The responsibility for penalising irregularities and redressing
> damage rests solely upon the Director and these Laws, not upon the
> players themselves."
> 
> So even if the De Wael School interpretation is right, a De Wael
> School at-the-table action is wrong, since Herman is unilaterally
> infracting Law 72A6 by usurping the Law interpretation role which
> properly belongs to the Director and the Belgian NBO.
> 

I know - and there is no need to hammer on about the MI.
But the fact remains that your proposed actions (alerting, 
explaineing, whatever) ar all in direct conflict with the clear 
obligation stated in L75D2 "not indicate, in any manner, that a 
mistake has been made".

When at last you will realize that there is a huge dilemma here, maybe 
we can go on to trying to figure out which of the two laws has precedence?

-- 
Herman DE WAEL
Antwerpen Belgium
http://www.hdw.be