[blml] Alerting Rules [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Stefanie Rohan]

>
> 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."

I ws wondering about this.  I would be very surprised if the L&EC heard an 
appeal and made a decision without informing one of the pairs involved.  But 
perhaps it did happen.
>
>
> 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).

Who have the power to overrule...?

Cheers

Stefanie Rohan