[blml] Zonal Delegation of L12c3

[Nigel]

[Tim West-Meades]
I have seen it suggested that the EBL has delegated to its member
countries the authority to forbid L12c3 to Appeals Committees.

However, I can find no record (on the EBL website or elsewhere) of 
this  having happened.  Can anybody shed any light on the issue?

[nige1]
In the paragraph below, the author takes pains to make it clear that 
the WBF Law Committee itself has not changed L12C3. The appeals 
committee decided to do so, on its own initiative: Presented with a 
fait-accompli, the law-committee seems to have decided to go along 
with the appeals-committee's new version of the law, as an interim 
measure.

Disgracefully, The EBU Orange book allows TDs and directors the option 
of applying the notorious L12C3.

It is hard to imagine any situation in which a weighted score would 
"restore equity" so, in theory, L12C3 should rarely be invoked. 
Unfortunately, in practice, directors and committees find it hard to 
resist playing with this dangerous and intriguing toy.

Hence: law-breakers are delighted; victims of infractions are learning 
to abandon any hope of justice.

Tim's putative EBL directive (if it exists) is a tentative step in the 
right direction.

Perhaps Richard Hills will again search the locked cabinet in the 
disused lavatory with the "Beware of the Leopard" sign?

[WBFLC 2000]
The Laws Committee not having so far changed Law 12C3, the Appeals 
Committee at the World Championships in Bermuda, January 2000, issued 
the following directive to the Chief Tournament Director: "As part of 
its arrangements under Law 80G the Appeals Committee requires the 
Chief Director of his own volition, as a preliminary in the appeals 
process, to consider whether an adjustment in accordance with the 
provisions of Law 12C3 would be appropriate. If so, in pursuance of 
the terms of the WBF Code of Practice he is authorized to make such an 
adjustment before the players are given the ruling in order to achieve 
equity as he judges it. Such a score adjustment may be appealed to the 
Appeals Committee on the same basis as an appeal of any other ruling, 
but the fact that a judgmental ruling by the Director is made with 
these enhanced powers, and after consultation with colleagues and 
expert opinion, means that appeals committees will require strong 
evidence that puts it beyond reasonable doubt a ruling should be 
varied." The WBF Laws Committee will return to the question of Law 
12C3 at a future time. In the meantime it has stated that it finds it 
acceptable if other regulating authorities adopt this method of 
achieving the intention of the Code of Practice.

[Orange Book 7D1A]
L12C3 applies so a TD or appeals committee may vary an assigned 
adjusted score in order to achieve equity by assigning weighted scores.