[blml] San Diego Lightfoot Sue [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: "Jerry Fusselman" <jfusselman at gmail.com>
To: "Bridge Laws Mailing List" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] San Diego Lightfoot Sue [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]


> On 9/7/07, Grattan Endicott <grandeval at vejez.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> +=+ My initial reaction is that the AC should have been
>> instructed as to the law by the Director, who should then
>> have refused to impose a penalty for a supposed offence
>> which in law was not an offence. Am I missing something?
>>                                  ~ Grattan ~   +=+
>>
> 
> At the end of the appeal process, the director may (or must?) override
> an AC's final decision that imposes a penalty whenever the director
> decides there was no offense?  This is in the law book?  Has it ever
> happened in the ACBL?
> 
> Jerry Fusselman
> 
+=+ Law 81C5 requires the Director to administer and 
        interpret the Laws.
        Law 81B2 states that the Director is bound by the laws 
        and supplementary regulations.
        Law 93B3 authorizes the appeals committee to exercise
        the powers the Director has so long as it does not seek 
        to overrule him on a point of law or regulation or on 
        exercise of his disciplinary powers. 
        I would think the foregoing is explicit enough - and that 
        in particular the requirement to 'administer' lays a duty 
        upon the Director. 
        My extended memory does tell me that on at least one 
        occasion my good friend  William J. Schoder did tell an 
        AC in an international event that, as a matter of law, it 
        could not do what it had decided to do. However, when 
        needed it can appear that some of the most outwardly  
        virile TDs lack the requisite testicular equipment.        
                                                        ~ Grattan ~   +=+