[blml] Appeal

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Burrows" <wjburrows at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 5:21 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] Appeal


 
> What then do you think of a regulation that says 
> an appeal even if it  "...is successful, will not alter 
> the result of the event."?
> 
+=+ I tend to prefer the EBU regulation:
        ""The outcome of an appeal to the National 
Authority, or some other intervention by the Laws
and Ethics Committee, will affect the result of a 
match in a knock-out competition only if the decision 
is made in time for the result to be included in the 
draw for the next round without undue disruption to
the progress of the competition. The same principle 
applies, with any necessary modifications, to any 
competition which involves qualification for a 
subsequent round or stage of the competition.""
       Of appeals in general the Law Book says that
"Zonal organizations may establish differing conditions
of appeals for special contests."  In relation to appeals 
to the National Authority Law 93 establishes the 
right of appeal to the national authority but it places no
requirement upon that body as to how it will deal with 
such an appeal. This, I think, is open to regulation and,
if the regulation contains the statement Wayne quotes,
it is not under bridge law that a question can be put;  it 
is rather a matter of morality or, as it may be, national 
law.
                            ~ Grattan ~   +=+
[Chambers Dictionary: - 'appeal' = (verb) to demand 
another judgement by a higher court; to call on a higher 
court to review a caes, conviction, etc.; 
                                      (noun) a process by which 
a party may have a decision reviewed by a higher court 
or authority. ]