[blml] Clarification...

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 18:14 17/07/2007 +0100, Nigel wrote:

>Surely the law should *encourage* spectators to report infractions, as
>would be expected of any good citizen who witnessed law-breaking?

Surely not. Subjectivity is too high, in this domain, to allow reporting. 
We're already flooded by difficult-to-sort suspicions.

>If current law applied in 1965, then Reese and Schapiro were illegally
>convicted!

Perhaps they were. The arguments never seemed very convincing to me.

>[L81C6, TFLB, 1997]
>The Director's duties and powers normally include the following...
>...to rectify an error or irregularity of which he becomes aware in
>any manner, within the correction period established in accordance
>with Law 79C.
>
>[nige1]
>Many law-makers and directors express the opinion that the director
>should avoid interference unless called by a player; they argue that
>singling out a particular table for attention would be unfair to the
>law-breakers at that table, when law-breakers at other tables might be
>getting away with similar infractions.

This law should remain as such (or there may be two paragraphs, the present 
one and your suggestion below) to allow director to immediately correct 
irregularities that would worsen if one waited until they were known to the 
players, e.g. wrong shifting of the boards.

>IMO law 81C6 should be clarified to mean that, on the contrary, time
>permitting, it is a director's duty to pro-actively seek out and
>investigate possible infractions.

Best regards

    Alain