[blml] Law 27: appeal director's opinion?

[Robert Frick]

"if, except as in (a), the insufficient bid is corrected with a legal call  
that IN THE DIRECTOR'S OPINION has the same meaning* as, or a more precise  
meaning* than, the insufficient bid.."

Sorry if this is obvious or already discussed. As I read this, the proper  
ruling does not care whether the director's opinion was right or wrong.

So the players can't appeal the accuracy of the director's opinion,  
because accuracy isn't a part of the law.

Details:

If the director understood the law wrong, then an appeal could be made  
and/or the ruling could be changed. (e.g., the director allowed a change  
 from a 6-9 HCP range to a 6-12 HCP range, misunderstanding the law. The  
director's opinion at the time was NOT that the replacement bid had a  
"more precise meaning", properly understood.)


I am not sure what happens if the director changes his/her mind. I am  
guessing that the law applies to the director's opinion at the time the  
ruling was made.

Example:

1NT  P  2D  2S
2H

A director might not allow the correction to 3H because 2H denies a  
super-accept and 3H probably does not. But it is a subtle point. The  
director does not think of it and opines that 3H has a more precise  
meaning than 2H. Later the opps think of this argument and present it to  
the director, who accepts the argument and changes his mind. Too late,  
right?