[blml] Alerting Rules [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Stefanie Rohan asserted:

>Yes. The note in the Orange Book was added as a reference to this case.
>The author of the Orange Book, who is not subjected to any oversight,
>disagreed with the ruling and decided to add this specific example so as
>to change the rules to suit his preference, even though a very high-
>quality AC, chaired by perhaps the UK's finest AC Chairman, had decided
>that the bid should be alerted.

[snip]

Richard Hills quibbles:

To the best of my knowledge and belief, two of Stefanie's assertions are
incorrect.

Firstly, it was not the editor of the Orange Book who over-ruled the
Appeals Committee decision on his own initiative.  Rather, the EBU Laws
and Ethics Committee used its Law 93C power as a National Authority to
over-rule the Appeals Committee decision.  The final sentence of the EBU
L&EC commentary in the casebook was this unambiguous statement:

"The degree of unexpectedness of the actual methods in use in this case
was not sufficient to require an alert."

Secondly, it is not true that the Editor of new versions of the EBU
Orange Book and the EBU White Book, David Stevenson, "is not subjected to
any oversight".  His new drafts do not by fait accompli arrive on the
desks of the EBU Law and Ethics Committee for a routine rubber stamp.

Rather, those new drafts are circulated well in advance to a panel of
bridge law experts for analysis and review (including non-EBU expert
analysts such as, for example, a wild colonial boy from Orstraya).

:-)


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
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