[blml] Double Dummy play [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Grattan Endicott]

Grattan Endicott
grandeval at vejez.fsnet .co.uk
[also gesta at tiscali.co.uk]
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim West-Meads" <twm at cix.co.uk>
To: <blml at rtflb.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:30 AM
Subject: Code of Practice: [was Re: [blml] Double Dummy play] :
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> Richard wrote:
>>
>> Even Herman De Wael acknowledges that under WBF
>> by-laws the WBF Laws Committee are the guardians
>> who have the power to interpret the Lawbook.
>
> Indeed - so what relevance does the CoP have to any
> debate on official interpretation of law?  It is only the
> minutes of the WBFLC that bind us - not the CoP.
>
> Tim
>
+=+ Relevance insofar as it is adopted.
       Quote: "The World Bridge Federation adopts the standards
in this Code of Practice as regulations for the conduct of appeals
from decisions of Tournament Directors and recommends their
adoption to each affiliated Organization."
     2.  The minutes of the WBFLC become binding when ratified
by the Executive Council of the WBF.
     3.   The Executive Council of the WBF has a specific power "to
exercise appellate jurisdiction from acts or decisions of committees",
and it has power "to exercise all .... powers of the WBF .... as are
not required ..... to be done by the Congress."  For this reason the
assertion that "it is only the minutes of the WBFLC that bind us -
not the CoP" is insecurely founded and is subject to any overriding
decisions of the Executive Council (or of the Management Committee
acting in its behalf between meetings).
                                  ~ Grattan ~   +=+