[blml] Appeal by a Director

[Adam Beneschan]

Paul Lamford wrote:

> A tournament director classifies a psyche as  amber. The Chief Tournament 
> Director overrules him and reclassifies it as green.  Does the tournament 
> director have the right to appeal this (for example to the  national authority), if 
> none of the players at the table wishes to do  so?

Sounds like this is a matter for the regulations and by-laws of each
bridge league (and I have no idea what the EBU rules are---I'm
assuming this is EBU).  But as a matter of general principle, I don't
see why they'd have that right.  In the American judicial system, for
example, if a court ruling gets overturned by a higher court, the
parties to the case have the right to appeal to yet a higher court,
but the judge whose decision got overturned doesn't.  There's a
hierarchy, a "chain of command" involved, where the judges involved
are all part of the same institution, supposedly with the same
mission, and those lower in the institution's hierarchy are expected
to defer to those higher up.  I don't see why it should be any
different for TD's.
 
                                -- Adam