[blml] By the pricking of my thumbs [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Grattan Endicott:

>>+=+ 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?

Eric Landau:

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If it were possible for the withdrawn call to have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

Richard Hills:

Yes, when Sean Mullamphy arrived at the table, my
partner explained his thumbling inadvertency by
stating that his thumb pulled the 1S card from the
bidding box because the 1S card was adjacent to the
intended 1NT card.

The extraneous information that I have gained - that a
bidding box is constructed so that the 1S card is next
to the 1NT card - is not also unauthorised information,
but is instead authorised general bridge knowledge.

For what it is worth, the former blmler David Stevenson
(once described as "unofficial moderator of blml") is -
or was - also a supporter of Eric Landau's view.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
National Training Branch, DIAC
02 6225 6285

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