[blml] By the pricking of my thumbs

[Eric Landau]

At 07:28 AM 3/8/07, Grattan wrote:

>From: "Sven Pran" <svenpran at online.no>
>
> > A call that has been accepted under Law 25A
> > as an inadvertent call is considered null and void.
> > Consequently it has never been made, conveyed
> > no information and was no more an irregularity
> > than for instance a casual cough or sneeze would
> > be.
>
>+=+ Are you saying that, for the purposes of Law 16,
>no unauthorized information can result from what has
>occurred?  If so, when partner draws an inference and
>bases ensuing action upon it?

If it were possible for the withdrawn call to have provided any useful 
information, unauthorized or otherwise, it could not have satisfied the 
strict inadvertancy criterion of L25A.  The TD who allowed the 
penalty-free correction has, by doing so, implicitly ruled that there 
was no UI.


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